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- Huawei details Kirin 9050: Tao's Law, logic folding, hybrid bonding
Chinese outlet Zhidx reports that Huawei held a two-day technical briefing in Shanghai, its first detailed public explanation of its Kirin chips in six years. Huawei says the Kirin 9050 series is the first to use "logic folding," with hybrid bonding pitch of 1.5 microns and more than 50 million high-speed channels, claiming gains of 12.7% in CPU clock speed, 40% in GPU performance, 140% in NPU compute and 41%-66% in energy efficiency. Huawei also described multi-level memory-compute coordination and a joint quantization scheme that runs a 30B model on-device in about 2.5GB of memory, and said the test metrics for "Kirin 2027" all met expectations.
智东西 · 🔥 3 - Huawei details Kirin 9050 Pro, its first logic-folded chip, with on-device 30B MoE
At a 2026 Kirin media briefing in Shanghai on Oct 13, Huawei semiconductor executive Xu Songyu published the full architecture diagram of the Kirin 9050 Pro, the first logic-folded "Tao" chip, which Huawei says has been mass-produced with support from China's semiconductor industry. The chip combines a new Lingxi CPU (9 cores, 16 threads), a fourth-generation Maleoon GPU with second-generation hardware ray tracing (40% higher performance, 45% lower power, 78% better ray tracing), a new Da Vinci NPU, a Kirin AI ISP, a Balong AI Modem, an FFTS function-flow task scheduler, a security processor and the Lingxi micro-core. Huawei says the NPU raises AI performance by 140% while cutting power by 66% and enables the industry's first on-device 30B MoE model (2B active parameters, under 2.5GB of memory), alongside 7B dense and 1B VLM models; Xu also said the next-generation Kirin 2027 chip is ready and that all test results so far meet expectations.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Five Chinese flagship launches in 11 days put on-device AI at the center
A roundup republished by Cyzone (originally from Lansha Finance) describes how vivo's X500 series, OPPO's Find X10 series, Xiaomi's 18 Pro series, Honor's Magic9 series and Huawei's Mate 90 series all launched within 11 days, from Sept 21 to Oct 1, earlier than in past years. The piece argues the competition has shifted from pixel and chip specs toward imaging, on-device AI and long-term system experience: Xiaomi 18 Pro adds a dedicated AI button and AI auto-editing, vivo and OPPO embed AI in OriginOS 7 and ColorOS 17, Huawei folds AI into HarmonyOS, and Honor turns YOYO into a system-level agent while announcing a MobileAI plan with China Mobile that bundles AI token allowances with telecom plans. It cites Counterpoint Research projecting generative-AI phones at 45% of 2026 global shipments, while noting AI is not yet a strong enough reason for users to upgrade, and notes 7,000mAh-plus batteries, 200MP cameras and 8K/Log video as shared trends. Sales and ranking figures (such as Honor's claim of 208% first-hour growth and leading Android flagships during the holiday) come from the vendors, while pricing and DRAM data are attributed to IDC and TrendForce.
创业邦 科技 · 🔥 0 - Qualcomm to pay Huawei under patent cross-license, says analysis
An analysis published by TMTPost (authored by Shi Tianhao) says Huawei and Qualcomm reached a multi-year, broad patent licensing agreement covering cross-licenses in 5G, computing, AI and networking, with Qualcomm also acquiring some of Huawei's US patents in computing, AI and networking. Citing CCTV Finance, it says Qualcomm will pay to use more than 680 Huawei patents, and that Huawei's cumulative licensing revenue across all agreements is expected to exceed $6.9 billion (the value of this deal was not disclosed); Qualcomm has denied being a "net payer" and denied the transaction involves "logic folding." The piece sets the deal in a 25-year timeline in which Huawei, once the payer, has become a payee, contrasts the Kirin 9050 Pro's "logic folding" and Taifa with Xiaomi's XRING O1, and notes claims that Ascend's China market share has passed Nvidia, that DeepSeek is co-developing open-source software tooling for Ascend, and that AMD is buying World Labs for about $8.2 billion.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Qualcomm reportedly to license Huawei patents tied to LogicFolding
Qualcomm has reportedly agreed to a multiyear cross-license with Huawei that may include patents supporting Huawei’s LogicFolding chip-stacking architecture, Bloomberg reported. The companies’ announcement did not identify the patents or mention LogicFolding; the deal also includes technology areas such as 5G, AI services, optics and networking, and remains subject to regulatory approval.
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