{"id":8532,"date":"2018-11-06T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:36:01","slug":"kirin-980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/kirin-980\/","title":{"rendered":"HiSilicon Kirin 980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huawei&#8217;s own silicon design devision HiSilicon has presented <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/nl\/campaign\/kirin980\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first 7nm chipset Kirin 980 SoC Application Processor<\/a> for their flagship smartphones <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/nl\/phones\/mate20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mate 20<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/nl\/phones\/mate20-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mate 20 Pro<\/a>. The Kirin 980 is also the first SoC containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/12785\/arm-cortex-a76-cpu-unveiled-7nm-powerhouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARM Cortex 76<\/a> CPU and Mali G76 GPU. For more technical and functional data of the Kirin 980 AP we refer to articles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/13298\/hisilicon-announces-the-kirin-980-first-a76-g76-on-7nm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Anandtech article<\/a>. Meanwhile we carry on to be the first one with die photo&#8217;s of this System-on-a-Chip (SoC) device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During teardown of the Huawei Mate 20 we discovered a chip marked SEC 828 K3UH5H5. As mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/mate-20-teardown\/\">the teardown article<\/a> this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/electroiq.com\/2006\/07\/package-on-package-trends-and-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Package-on-Package (PoP)<\/a> with the Kirin 980 AP located underneath Samsung&#8217;s 4GB LPDDR4X SDRAM modules. After extraction of the Kirin 980 we could have a good look at the die. It revealed die marking HI 3680 V200 as is seen in the images below.<\/p>\n<div data-link=\"file\" id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8532 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kirin980_block_layout.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kirin980_block_layout-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cortex A76, Cortex A55, Mali G76MP10\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8590\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8590'>\n\t\t\t\tFunctional block layout of the Kirin 980. Labeling by Anandtech\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kirin980_BI3680_800px.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Kirin980_BI3680_800px-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"HI3680 V200\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8564\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8564'>\n\t\t\t\tDie shot of the HiSilicon Kirin 980 SoC. Free to use with credentials\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kirin-980-die-mark-HI3680.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kirin-980-die-mark-HI3680-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8549\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8549'>\n\t\t\t\tDie marking of the Kirin 980 show HI3680 V200\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kirin-980-die-shot-800px.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kirin-980-die-shot-800px-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"HI3680 V200\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8547\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8547'>\n\t\t\t\tDie shot of the HiSilicon Kirin 980 frontside.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SEC828_K3UH5H5_kirin980_OMMEGCL.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SEC828_K3UH5H5_kirin980_OMMEGCL-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8559\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8559'>\n\t\t\t\tPackage marking Kirin 980\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The die size of the Kirin turned out to be smaller than expected namely 74.13mm\u00b2. For more detail we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/downloads\/hisilicon-kirin-980-soc\/\">high resolution floorplan die shots available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s all for now, we will proceed having a look at the functional blocks and perform some SEM imaging&#8230;stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> for special request or send your question to <a href=\"mailto:hello@chiprebel.com\">hello@chiprebel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei&#8217;s own silicon design devision HiSilicon has presented the first 7nm chipset Kirin 980 SoC Application Processor for their flagship smartphones Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro. The Kirin 980&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[97],"tags":[167,171,168,172,163,165,173,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiprebel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}