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Huawei recently announced a new SoC called the Kirin 930. The chip is built on TSMC's 16 nm FinFET process node, which puts it ahead of many other chip companies, including Qualcomm, in terms of adopting a more cutting edge process.
Being on a next-generation process node means that the chip can be made either more powerful, more efficient, or a combination of both. A chip company can even use the process advantage to hide the lower architectural performance of its CPU if it can raise the clock speed enough to reach the same performance as a competitor's chip, while still maintaining a certain power consumption level.
Apparently, Huawei chose to take advantage of the new process node by raising the speed of Cortex-A53 cores to 2 GHz and then calling them Cortex-A53 enhanced, or Cortex-A53e (likely just a brand name for a high clock speed Cortex-A53).
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Wow, 2 GHz sounds like one fast mobile SoC CPU.
Being on a next-generation process node means that the chip can be made either more powerful, more efficient, or a combination of both. A chip company can even use the process advantage to hide the lower architectural performance of its CPU if it can raise the clock speed enough to reach the same performance as a competitor's chip, while still maintaining a certain power consumption level.
Apparently, Huawei chose to take advantage of the new process node by raising the speed of Cortex-A53 cores to 2 GHz and then calling them Cortex-A53 enhanced, or Cortex-A53e (likely just a brand name for a high clock speed Cortex-A53).
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Wow, 2 GHz sounds like one fast mobile SoC CPU.
