Huawei Mate XT Ultimate runs the company's top chipset
Huawei launched Mate XT Ultimate, the first tri-fold smartphone, but one key detail remained a mystery: the chipset. While the company has not officially commented on the SoC powering its devices, a hands-on from the launch event in China revealed that the tri-fold is equipped with the Kirin 9010.
The chipset features an 8-core CPU consisting of 1x 2.3 GHz Taishan Big core, 3x 2.18 GHz Taishan Mid cores, and 4x 1.55 GHz Cortex-A510 cores, paired with a Maleoon 910 MP4 GPU.
The 12-thread 8-core Kirin 9010 chipsetManufactured by SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation), the largest chipmaker in China, the Kirin 9010 is also used in the Pura 70 Ultra cameraphone. It"s built on a 7 nm process, locally called N+2, the same as the Kirin 9000s found in Huawei"s Mate 60 series.
In terms of performance, the Kirin 9010 is comparable to MediaTek"s Dimensity 8200 - impressive, considering the restrictions Chinese companies have faced. However, with the Mate XT Ultimate priced around $3,000 and performing similarly to a $300 phone, some users may feel disappointed.
