Chinese mobile and telecommunications company Huawei has launched two new 28 nm High Performance Mobile (HPM) processors, one being the quad-core while the other an octa-core.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei broke the news on his Sina Weibo page. The quad core chip announced is supposed to be called HiSilicon K3V2 Pro. It will based on ARM Cortex A-9 architecture, supporting GSM/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE and FDD-LTE modems.
The octa-core chip is expected to debut in market with the name of HiSilicon K3V3. It will use ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. It will also feature a quad-core Cortex A-15 chip and quad-core Cortex A-7 chip. While the A-15 chip will be utilized for heavy tasks, the A-7 will take care of light-weight ones.
However, it is unknown if it will be able to implement the Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP). In HMP, all eight cores are used in number of different combinations, acting as 1 to 8 cores all at the same time.
In a related development, Engadget reported that another 64-bit chipset was detailed in a separate post by Yu but for unknown reasons, it was deleted soon afterwards. The unnamed 64-bit chipset was detailed to feature a quad-core Cortex A-57, and quad-core Cortex A-53 combination.
Apart from having its own chips, the company would also use chips form MediaTek and Qualcomm for its high-end devices, confirmed Yu.
Going by the previous track record, Huawei's system-on-chip is not much widely known compared to the ones offered from Samsung, Qualcomm and MediaTek. However, the company's upcoming smartphone, the Huawei P6S is expected to sport its octa-core processor.
For the first time, 64-bit chipset was equipped in Apple's iPhone 5s after which Samsung too has announced its plans to incorporate the same capability in its upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone.
