Huawei announced it’s top-shelf chipset, the HiSilicon Kirin 980, which brought a lot of world’s firsts. What the company failed to mention were some key details about the SoC and the operating frequencies of the CPU clusters was among those.
During an event in China called Knowledge-core, the spokesperson revealed the clock speeds of all eight cores. Since the CPU consists of three separate clusters, each has its own clock speed – we’ve got 2x Cortex-A76 clocked at 2.6GHz and 2x Cortex-A76 ticking at 1.92GHz. The final four Cortes-A55 cores are set to operate at 1.8GHz.
Obviously,…