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Reuters reported that the Biden administration has intensified restrictions on China’s top sanctioned chipmaker, SMIC, following revelations that its most advanced factory, SMIC South, produced a sophisticated chip for Huawei’s Mate 60 series devices. China manages to fabricate chips despite several trade restrictions intended to prevent the same The trade sanctions aim to curb the flow of U.S. technology to SMIC and undermine its ability to manufacture advanced chips for Huawei or any other Chinese manufacturer. The…

Kirin J Callinan might be cursed. It’s a Friday afternoon in January and the 38-year-old musician and longtime pop provocateur is lounging on a craggy outpost just off Bondi beach when a wave lurches upwards and arcs towards him with terrifying speed. He waits for the inevitable impact. Thud! We are drenched with salt and sand.“I have a superstition,” he confesses a second later. “Whenever I go into the water or near the water, it seems to rise up. It feels like Poseidon is enraged, or salutes me – or it’s a warning.”The…

The upcoming Huawei P70 series will use a new chipset from HiSilicon tentatively named “Kirin 9010”, writes Smart Pikachu on Weibo. The chip hasn’t been officially announced yet, but it has been in the works for a long time. The first time we heard the name Kirin 9010 was three years ago – another leakster revealed that it will be a 3nm chip. TSMC was the most likely foundry, but the trade restrictions on Huawei now make this unlikely. Last week it was discovered that Huawei is shipping laptops with Kirin 9006C chips…

Huawei’s upcoming flagships could include an all-new processor. I’m talking about the Huawei P70 series smartphones, of course, and the chip in question is the Kirin 9010. This information comes from a Chinese tipster that goes by the name ‘Smart PIkachu’. He shared the information via Weibo. The tipster believes Huawei won’t use the Kirin 9000s inside its new flagships. The upcoming Huawei P70 smartphones could utilize an all-new Kirin 9010 processor The thing is, the Kirin 9010 could be just a modified version of the…

Huawei launched a new Qingyuan L450 notebook in early December 2023 for the Chinese market and one of the centerpiece features is the new 5nm Kirin 9006C. This sparked rumors about China's chip manufacturing capabilities and some thought that SMIC has made a big breakthrough by producing advanced 5nm silicon. However, a teardown by Tech Insights put an end to the rumors as they found a TSMC-made chip at the heart of the Qinguyan L450. In fact, the SoC is based on an older, less efficient manufacturing process from…

Huawei has announced several new mid-range smartphones as part of its Nova 12 lineup. The Huawei Nova 12, Nova 12 Pro, and Nova 12 Ultra launched. The launch happened in China, and one of those phones is particularly interesting. The device in question is the Huawei Nova 12 Pro, and it packs a brand new Kirin chip. The Huawei Nova 12 Pro has a brand new Kirin 8000 processor The Huawei Nova 12 Pro launched with the Kirin 8000 processor. Truth be said, Huawei did not specifically mention that chip, but someone got ahold of…

Huawei managed to raise a lot of eyebrows when it announced the new Kirin 9000s, a 7nm processor. That’s a different story, though, let’s focus on the matter at hand here. The “old’ Huawei Kirin 9000 from 2020 managed to outperform the new Kirin 9000s, on benchmarks. The Kirin 9000 from 2020 actually managed to outgun the new Kirin 9000s Based on the findings of Nanoreview.net, the Kirin 9000s tested slightly better in the CPU section, but the Kirin 9000 won in basically every other way. On Geekbench, the Kirin 9000s…

Popular CPU comparison site Nanoreview got hold of the new Huawei Kirin 9000s chipset and put it side by side with its predecessor, the Kirin 9000. The result is mostly predictable - the new chip is a hair faster in CPU tests and much slower in graphics tasks, and it's also less efficient due to its dated architecture. The CPU uses four TaiShan V120 cores (1x 2.62GHz, 3x 2.15GHz) and four Cortex-A510 (at 1.53GHz), while the transistor size is 7nm. Compare that to the nearly three-year-older 5nm Kirin 9000's four…

Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 was launched in China on Tuesday. The tablet succeeds the MatePad Pro 11 2023 model. It is powered by a Kirin 9000s chipset and is backed by an 8,300mAh battery with 66W wired fast charging support. The tablet maintains a similar design language to that of that of the preceding models. Huawei confirmed that the tablet will be available for purchase in two storage variants and in four colour options.Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 price, availabilityOffered in Diamond White,…

A new Huawei device appeared on Geekbench with a mysterious Kirin chipset. The Huawei XYAO-W00 is believed to be an upcoming MatePad Pro tablet is listed with the unnamed chipset featuring an eight-core CPU with a 1 performance core clocked @ 2.49 GHz, 3x cores @ 2.15 GHz and 4x efficiency cores @ 1.53 GHz. The Huawei device managed 1,244 single-core and 3,793 multi-core scores which is in line with the performance of the Kirin 9000s found inside the Mate 60 series as well as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. The listing…