Kirin 9000 series regret is also some, that is, Huawei Kirin 9000 baseband chip has not been upgraded, but still uses the 5G baseband of Balong 5000, as for the Balong 6000 rumors before the Internet did not appear, Huawei's baseband chip capability is still very strong, why did not upgrade it? Is it a technical problem?
Of course not, first take a look at the Balong 5000 and Qualcomm X55, the two baseband chips are basically at the same level, both support Sub 6GHz and millimeter bands, NSA and SA dual-mode networking, Balong 5000 maximum download rate of 6.5Gbps, upload rate of 3.5Gbps, and X55 maximum download rate of 7Gbps, The upload rate is 2.5Gbps, but the X55 is actually officially applied this year, the Balong 5000 was applied last year, and it is also integrated into the SOC, to a certain extent, Huawei baseband technology is indeed leading.
But the stronger Qualcomm X60 came out, Huawei has no corresponding competitive products, at the same time regretfully, it must not wonder whether Huawei's baseband technology is lagging behind? In fact, the root cause is the production capacity problem, Qualcomm X60 is the use of 5nm process, and Huawei if the launch of Balong 6000 certainly need to use 5nm process, but Huawei's 5nm process capacity is needed to produce Kirin chip, although the SOC is IP and baseband on a chip, but this does not mean that the SOC is a shape.
Different modules, such as baseband and CPU as well as GPU cores, should be designed and manufactured separately, because this is a different type of chip, and finally the two different chips are packaged together by a special packaging manufacturer, which becomes an SOC, so if 5nm is used to manufacture Balong 6000, then the production capacity of Kirin 9000 series will be seized. This means that Kirin 9000 core
So is there a 5G baseband chip called Balong 6000? Although I do not know if it is the name, I can boldly speculate that the plan must be there, and it is likely to have been designed, but chip manufacturing is Huawei's weakness, so Kirin 9000 can only continue to use Balon 5000 baseband chip.
Of course, for the Kirin 9000 series, although it is still Balong 5000, but 5G performance is still very strong, that is, it does not support millimeter wave, and the current Snapdragon 888 and Exynos1080 are supported by the same integrated way, but the overall impact is not big, China's domestic millimeter wave plan is still early, Sub-6G is still the mainstream. Including the global scale is also true, millimeter wave is currently very expensive, short transmission distance is vulnerable to interference, and will not be used in the short term.