Huawei Kirin 8000 breaks cover in an unreleased smartphone

It seems Huawei is indeed expanding its chipset portfolio. At the beginning of this month, the Chinese brand launched a laptop named Qingyun L540. It debuted with a new Kirin 9006C SoC, which proved that the company’s portfolio won’t remain limited to the Kirin 9000S. Now, information regarding another Kirin chipset has surfaced.

Named Kirin 8000, the chipset was spotted inside a soon-to-be-unveiled Huawei smartphone called Nova 12 Pro. As the picture of the device’s specs shows (attached below), the SoC is driving a display with a resolution of 2776 x 1224 pixels. This suggests it will be a somewhat capable mid-range chipset.

Besides that, all the other information about the Huawei Kirin 8000 is currently unknown. The specification picture shared doesn’t show the exact CPU cluster of the chipset either. Also, we don’t know if the SoC has been fabricated with a 7 nm or a 5 nm process.

But, considering that the recently released Kirin 9006C is a 5 nm chipset, the Kirin 8000 could also be under the same process. Even if that’s the case, we don’t expect the chipset to be faster than the competition. However, it will definitely play a role in Huawei’s push to reduce dependency and not let the currently active US sanctions limit its progress.

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