Huawei has announced its next-generation chipset for smartphones, the Kirin 970. It bets big on AI and comes with what Huawei calls a neural processing unit (or NPU) bringing on-device AI capabilities. The new chipset features an octa-core CPU with 4x2.4GHz Cortex-A73 and 4x1.8GHz Cortex-A53 cores, and a 12-core Mali-G72MP12 GPU. Built on a 10nm process, the SoC contains some 5.5 billion transistors on a single square centimeter. Huawei says its 'new heterogeneous computing architecture delivers up to 25x the performance with 50x greater efficiency' than your typical quad-core Cortex-A73...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_announces_kirin_970_chipset_with_ondevice_ai_capabilities-news-27090.php
