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Huawei plans to launch a 7 nm EUV Kirin 985 chips in the first half of 2019, expected to debut on Huawei Mate 30
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Huawei is preparing to launch its new 7nm processor, the Kirin 985, in the first half of 2019. This will be the successor to the Kirin 980, a source from Taiwan told.
According to our source, Huawei plans to launch the Kirin 985, which is an application processor (AP) manufactured through a 7 nanometer (nm) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chips, in the first half of this year. The processor is expected to go into the Huawei Mate 30 flagship series.
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The Kirin 985 is manufacturing by TSMC – the Kirin 980 was also mass-produced by the same Taiwanese foundry using a 7nm process. TSMC is also rushing to mass produce the Kirin 985 with a 7 nm EUV process.
Huawei is already testing the Mate 30 series, could launch in September or October
Taiwanese TSMC recently completed the construction of semiconductor design infrastructure to be used in a 5 nm processor.
Huawei’s Kirin 980 is a 64-bit high-performance mobile ARM LTE SoC designed by HiSilicon and introduced in August 2018.