Kirin 980

The world's first commercial mobile phone SoC chipset made with TSMC's 7 nm process integrates 6.9 billion transistors for performance and energy efficiency. It is the first of its kind developed with a 1.4 Gbps high-speed Cat 21 GPU. Kirin 980 supports the world's fastest LPDDR4X mobile phone WiFi chipset to reach peak downloads of 1.7 Gbit/s.

First 7 nm SoC

Built on Arm Cortex-A76

LTE Cat 21 support

Key Features

Process

• 7 nm
CPU

• 2+2+4 flex-scheduling mechanism
• 2x Cortex-A76@2.6 GHz + 2x Cortex-A76@1.92 GHz
• 4x Cortex-A55@1.8 GHz
GPU

• 10-core Mali-G76
AI

• Dual NPU
Modem

• DL 3CC + 4x4 MIMO + 256-QAM
• Cat 21, 1.4 Gbps download rate
ISP

• HUAWEI-developed ISP 4.0
• Multi-pass and multi-noise reduction technology, HDR color reproduction
Coprocessor

• i8 sensor coprocessor
Memory

• LPDDR4X@2133 MHz
Security

• inSE, EMVCo