The Chinese company, Huawei, the third largest cellphone manufacturer in the world, presented the processor Kirin ...
The Chinese company, Huawei, the third largest cellphone manufacturer in the world, presented the processor Kirin 970, the first for cellphones capable of supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a “smartphone”.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei, presented this advance at the IFA, in Berlin, one of the largest consumption technology fairs in the world. He claimed that the processor will be in the next star device of the company, the Mate 10, which will be presented on October 16th in Munich.
The goal of the chip/processor Kirin 970 is to be able to “provide the experience of intelligence in the device”, said Yu.
Its’ main novelty will be that it shall include, besides an eight core Central Processing Unit (CPU), and a twelve core Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), a Neuronal Processing Unit (NPU), which enable AI. This has not been achieved by any of the company’s rivals in the mobile phone industry.
This has been possible, explained Yu, thanks to a strong miniaturization work in the manufacture process.
So, the Kirin 970 was developed with processing technologies of 10 nanometers (nm) – like other last generation chips presented this year-, which enabled assembling, in a smaller size than its predecessor (Kirin 960), 5,500 million transistors instead of 4,000 million.
With more transistors, which determine the processing speed, and in a smaller space (the architecture is more compact), the processor may work faster, consuming less battery and generating less heat.
According to Yu, the Kirin 970 is capable of working five times faster than the processor of the iPhone 7 Plus, the last Apple model.
The new Huawei processor is the first with the capacity of assuming the processing needs of AI in the device (without using cloud intelligence to request answers).
Yu pointed out that, besides the speed and performance, the Kirin 970 offers a quality jump in terms of security as the AI operations are developed in the mobile device, so that private data do not have to travel the network, with the risk of being intercepted.
This shall train phones to convert an image into a painting in real time, performing simultaneous translations, or understanding what it wants to photograph and adapting the adjustments prior making the shot.
Source: EFE
