Huawei has launched the Mate XT Ultimate, its first tri-fold smartphone, but one key detail has 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 powered by the Kirin 9010.
The chipset features an 8-core CPU consisting of 1 x 2.3GHz Taishan Big core, 3 x 2.18GHz Taishan Mid cores, and 4 x 1.55GHz Cortex-A510 cores, paired with a Maleoon 910 MP4 GPU.
The 12-thread, 8-core Kirin 9010 chipset
Manufactured by SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation), the largest chipmaker in China, the Kirin 9010 is also used in the Pura 70 Ultra camera phone. It is built on a 7nm process, locally called N+2, the same as the Kirin 9000 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 costing around $3,000 and performing similarly to a $300 phone, some users may be disappointed.
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