The next flagship smartphone Huawei will receive the Kirin 9000 chip, The Elec reports, citing sources in the company.
The release of the Huawei P50 model will take place in early 2021. The Chinese corporation traditionally releases flagships of the P series in the first half of the year, and the Mate series in the second. Insiders disclosed information that Huawei has already agreed on the supply of components for the device with its partners.
It is known that the Korean corporations Samsung Display and LG Display will present modern OLED panels for Huawei. There is also information that the flagship will receive a Kirin 9000 chip, which will be produced by a subsidiary of HiSilicon. Debuting in the Huawei Mate 40, the processor supports 5G and has 30 percent more transistors than the Apple A14 Bionic chips found in the iPhone 12 lineup announced in October.
Sources said that the use of the Kirin 9000 chip in P50 smartphones has been in question due to US sanctions. Journalists believe that Huawei has either managed to preserve some of its processor stocks, or the corporation hopes that sanctions will be lifted from it, which will allow ordering a new batch of chips.
Huawei's current P-series smartphone was unveiled in April 2020. Huawei P40 Pro + received a 6.58-inch OLED display, a Kirin 990 5G processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of internal memory, a camera with lenses with a resolution of 50, 8, 8 and 40 megapixels and a 3D sensor. The cost of the flagship in Russia was 100 thousand rubles.
