The Kirin 710a processor is the equivalent of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 665 processor. The Kirin 710 adopts an 8-core design, with four A73 cores and four A53 cores, using a Big.Little hybrid architecture, with a maximum frequency of 2.2GHz compared to the Kirin 659, which is about 70% higher than the TSMC 12nm process, which is the first time Huawei has used TSMC's 12nm process.