For now, Kirin 980 has surpassed Snapdragon 855, but many people who have been kneeling for a long time are unwilling to admit this fact. Plus the domestic testing institutions and the media, we should all understand, are paid to eat, are not very happy to say this matter. In addition, there are many manufacturers that use Qualcomm Snapdragon processors and admit that Kirin chips surpass Qualcomm, how do you let them make their own mobile phone products?
Kirin 980 was released in August 2018, when the 7nm manufacturing process was used, and the Snapdragon 855 was released in December 2018, with a time difference of more than 3 months, and the previous generation of Snapdragon 845 used a 10nm process. Therefore, the Snapdragon on this piece has lagged behind the Kirin by 3 months.
Compared with the level of the chip, not only from the performance point of view, but also stability, popularity, price, supply of many factors.
Kirin chips have been comparable to Snapdragon in 2019, and there are levels in some aspects, at least there is no gap in user experience. However, Snapdragon has already been supplied globally, serving major mobile phone manufacturers, while Kirin has been Huawei's own use, not to say that abroad, there is no one in China. If Kirin price, performance is ideal, there will be no manufacturers do not consider using Kirin chip.
Kirin series products are designed by Huawei Hisilicon Semiconductor Co., LTD., TSMC foundry production, if normal foundry, Kirin chip can quickly catch up with Snapdragon. At present, because TSMC can not continue to contract, the highest grade of the existing Kirin chip product is Kirin 9000, its performance and Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 performance is almost the same, are integrated 5G baseband chips
We do not blow or black, if it is not the old United States unreasonable suppression and sanctions, this year Kirin processor has comprehensively surpassed Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Recently, there is such a mobile chip comprehensive performance ranking, of which Kirin 9000 ranks eighth, surpassing the tenth Snapdragon 888. Some people may not agree with this ranking, but this is the real situation.