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Huawei's sub-brand Honor showcased its latest Honor View 20 smartphone with in-display camera and 48MP AI rear camera. While Honor View 20 will be making the global debut on January 22nd, it will first lauched in China as Honor V20 on December 26th. The Honor View 20 is the first smartphone to sport 48MP Song IMX586 sensor. Talking about in-display camera, a hole with a diameter of 4.5mm will be drilled on upper left corner to fit the front-facing camera.  The company also introduced the new LinkTurbo technology that will bridge both the LTE and Wi-Fi connections. The recently launched Honor Magic 2 will be the first smartphone to get the LinkTurbo feature. Under the hood, it will be using the latest Kirin 980 octa-core processor built on 7nm FinFET process. It comes packed with the new Cortex-A76 cores and 10-core Mali G76 GPU. The dual NPU will help in faster analyzing of the AI tasks. With the dual NPU and dual ISP, the 48MP sensor on the Honor View 20 will have an ad...

Huawei introduced the Kirin 980 chipset w ith AI features, and 1.4 Gbps download speeds in September. The platform made its way to the Mate 20 series and is likely to appear in the next-gen Huawei P flagships. Although the SoC is still new, the Chinese company is already working on the follow-up, and according to industry sources, preparations for Kirin 990 has already begun. Reports from China claim TSMC will build the chipset on the 7nm process. Industry insiders claim the subsidiary manufacturer HiSilicon has invested around CNY200 million ( $28 million approx.) in research and development. The Kirin 980 was the first chipset built on the 7nm process with the first Cortex-A76 cores. While Kirin 990 will have a similar architecture, including the number of transistors and power consumption rates, it will have something to be advertised as a first - the Balong 5000 modem, certified for 5G speeds. Production should begin in the first quarter of 2019 and that’s when we expect mor...