It's obviously not surprising that Huawei is currently busy working on the successor to the Mate 9 from last year. Nor is it out of the ordinary for the Chinese company to launch a new in-house chipset with a new Mate series device. What it's planned for this year, however, may be an SoC made using a 10nm process. This rumored Kirin 970 part would thus compete on the same level with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 and Samsung's Exynos 8895. The Kirin 970's CPU is expected to have Cortex-A73 cores on the performance cluster just like the 960 featured in the Huawei P10, because apparently the...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_mate_10_to_be_powered_by_10nm_kirin_970_chipset_rumor_claims-news-25907.php
