Yesterday it was Huawei. A few days ago Apple. Both have presented their new smartphones with all the latest technology, which we will now have. But the two have also been ahead of the rest of the market by announcing that the hearts of their new smart devices are based on a chip or processor built in five nanometers (nm). But what does this really mean? It means, to put it in ‘Christian’ terms, that the chips are getting smaller and smaller, but at the same time more transistors fit inside them, which are the ones that do the work to process the information.
So far, seven nanometers was the most advanced, until last Tuesday the 13th that Apple announced its new iPhone 12, which houses the A14 Bionic processor, which according to Apple “is light years ahead of the competition and is faster and more efficient than never”. According to the apple company itself, the A14 Bionic has the fastest CPU and a GPU with up to 50% faster speed than the best chips of other brands, which translates into games with console-worthy graphics, powerful functions of computational photography and many other features, all without giving up great autonomy. The A14 Bionic raises the bar for machine learning thanks to a 16-core Neural Engine, which is an 80% increase in performance, and can perform 11 trillion operations per second even in the most demanding environments. This processor houses 11.8 billion transistors inside.
Kirin 9000
In that bloody technological battle, which is also one of miniaturization and power, the new series presented yesterday by Huawei, the Mate 40, is accompanied in its guts with the Kirin 9000, which comes fully equipped to run 5G technology, being capable processing intensive computation and multitasking functions with ease. “Integrated into Huawei Mate 40 Pro and Huawei Mate 40 pro +, Kirin 9000 is the most sophisticated 5-nanometer 5G SoC available on the market, offering incredibly improved energy efficiency and performance compared to its predecessor,” they say in China Huawei.For the first time, the flagship 5G SoC incorporates more than 15.3 billion transistors, making it the densest and most comprehensive 5G SoC to date.
The CPU features a heterogeneous 5nm architecture with cores running base clocks at up to 3.13 GHz. Additionally, the SoC incorporates a 24 Core Mali-G78 GPU, as well as an innovative Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with 2 large cores. and 2 small cores that take the device’s artificial intelligence (AI) to a new level. The 24 Core Mali-G78 GPU in HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro and HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro + is the most powerful ever introduced in a Huawei device, and offers more advanced graphics performance that is complemented by an incredible audiovisual experience that offers greater immersion while the user plays. Its 90 Hz screen, in conjunction with the 240 Hz touch sampling frequency, offer greater responsiveness, as well as incorporating, as a novelty, a haptic feedback to adjust to the visual experience.This configuration, focused on user entertainment, is completed with two stereo speakers with powerful bass that allow you to create cinematic experiences.
Computational photography with A14 Bionic
For its part, the Apple-designed A14 Bionic chip offers powerful computational photography capabilities, such as the new Apple ProRAW for more creative control of images, and the first end-to-end Dolby Vision video experience of up to 60 fps. . The redesigned pro camera system features an ultra-wide angle, an even longer telephoto lens on the iPhone 12 Pro Max, and new wide-angle cameras that allow you to take professional-quality photos and video in bright and low-light environments. The iPhone 12 Pro models also include a new LiDAR scanner for the most immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences and MagSafe technology, which provides high-performance wireless charging and enables a new ecosystem of accessories that easily connect to the device. iPhone.
The HUAWEI Mate 40 Series camera system, which has been co-designed with Leica to provide the best possible photographic solution to users, and which requires the powerful 5nm Kirin 9000 to bring out its full capabilities, incorporates significant enhancements in the ultra wide angle lens, as well as the main high definition camera and the telephoto lens, among others. In addition, its Dual Cinema Camera allows users to take high-quality videos and amazing wide-angle images, both with the front and rear cameras. The Dual Cinema Camera has a cinematic style 3: 2 shooting ratio.
Huawei’s idyll with the image
Capturing high-quality images is easier than ever with Steady Shot, as the HDR XD Fusion Engine ensures balanced exposure even when users are shooting in extreme lighting contrast. All this without neglecting the audio, since the HUAWEI Mate 40 Series has Audio Focus, Audio Zoom and high-fidelity sound recording from connected Bluetooth devices. The Ultra Wide Cine Camera lens offers an even wider field of view, as well as enriched detail, better low-light performance, and distortion correction algorithms, allowing users to capture stunning wide landscapes while the main camera is capable of real high definition images. Also, the image quality is even higher with the Full Pixel Octa PD AutoFocus. Improved distortion correction focuses on the face, body and extremities, making the Ultra Wide Angle lens useful in more scenarios than ever. HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro features a Periscope optical telephoto camera that supports 10x hybrid zoom and 50x digital zoom, and the HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro + goes even further with a dual telephoto camera that enables 20x hybrid zoom and 100x digital zoom. .
I am sure that I left many of the characteristics of the new Premium terminals from Apple and Huawei in the pipeline, but in this article I wanted to focus especially on the element that gives life to the devices, their processors built in an increasingly sophisticated process. If we have the opportunity to check the capabilities of each of the new Apple and Huawei equipment, we will tell you about it here as well.
