HiSilicon Kirin 970

The HiSilicon Kirin 970 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 10 in late 2017. Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G72 MP12 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE (4x4 MIMO, 5-band-carrier-aggregation, QAM-256, up to 1.2 Gbit/s) modem.

The performance cluster is clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and the four A53 power saving cores with up to 1.8 GHz. The performance should improve by about 20 percent according to Huawei and the power consumption reduced by 20 percent.

On the chip HiSilicon also included a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for running machine learning tasks very efficiently compared to the CPU cores.

Series
Codename	Cortex-A73/-A53
Series: Cortex-A73/-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 970 « 2.4 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A73/-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 960 2.4 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A73/-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 960s 2.1 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A73/-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 710 2.2 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A73/-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 710A 2 GHz 8 / 8  Cortex-A73/-A53
Clock Rate	2400 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads	8 / 8
Transistor Count	5500 Million
Manufacturing Technology	10 nm
Features	ARM Mali-G71 MP12 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x LTE Dual-SIM (4x4-MIMO, QAM-256, up to 1,2 Gbit/s)
GPU	ARM Mali-G72 MP12
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	ARM
Announcement Date	09/02/2017

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