Huawei announces new Kirin 810 chipset, phones and tablets

The new Nova 5 phones come up with quad-camera setups, in-display fingerprint scanners and more

In a slew of new announcements, Huawei has unveiled a new midrange chipset for its devices, as well as a few midrange phones powered by the new processor.

Beginning upwards, the latest flake from Huawei is the HiSilicon Kirin 810. It's based on the aforementioned 7nm design equally the Kirin 980, which powers Huawei's P30 Pro and other flagships.

Further, the 810 is an octa-core setup with ii ARM Cortez-A76 cores clocked at an impressive ii.27GHz. Half dozen Cortex-A55 cores accompany them, clocked at 1.88GHz.

Huawei says the Kirin 810 is xi percent faster in single-core and xiii per centum faster in multi-core functioning when compared to its primary competitor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710.

For graphics, the Kirin 810 uses a Republic of mali-G52 Mp6 GPU which, according to Huawei, gives the 810 a 162 percent over last year'south Kirin 710.

Finally, on the bogus intelligence side of things, the Kirin 810 includes a DaVinci neural processing unit (NPU) based on the Rubik'due south Cube Quantitative Stereo Arithmetic Unit. What that ways is the 810 can perform AI tasks faster than fries like the Snapdragon 855 or the MediaTek Helio P90.

New phones and tablets

Huawei Nova 5 Pro

Huawei also announced new phones sporting the Kirin 810, including a new Huawei Nova v and Nova 5 Pro. The Nova 5 sports a 6.39-inch OLED FHD+ display with a small waterdrop notch at the top. Information technology's got an impressive 32-megapixel selfie cam, plus a quad camera setup on the dorsum with a 48-megapixel master camera, xvi-megapixel wide-bending sensor, 2-megapixel depth lens and a two-megapixel macro camera. Additionally, it has 8GB of RAM, 128 or 256GB of RAM and a iv,000 mAh bombardment with Huawei's 40W SuperCharge system.

Every bit for the Nova 5 Pro, is mostly the same, but with a Kirin 980 instead of the 810.

There's also a new Nova 5i, only it uses the older Kirin 710 and ditches some of the unique features in the other Nova phones, like the in-brandish fingerprint scanner.

Unfortunately, Huawei'south Nova phones have seen limited availability in Canada, and it looks similar it'll exist the same story this time around.

Huawei announced a new MediaPad M6 tablet as well, powered by its Kirin 980 processor. At that place will exist ten.8-inch and 8.iv-inch versions of the tablet, with the simply deviation existence the size and battery chapters. Along with the 980, both tablets volition have 4GB of RAM, 64 or 128GB of storage, a xiii-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel front camera.

Huawei confirmed to MobileSyrup that the tablet would non come to Canada.

Source: Android Central

Update 06/21/2019 xiii:xl – Added information from Huawei, which confirmed the tablets weren't coming to Canada.