Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecommunications equipment supplier, introduced its new Kirin 980 system on a chip at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, on August 31, 2018. Photo: Handout

Huawei launches advanced 7-nanometre smartphone chip ahead of Apple, Samsung

The Kirin 980 system on a chip packs 6.9 billion transistors and delivers double the processing power for AI applications

Topic | Huawei

Li Tao in Shenzhen

Published: 8:03am, 1 Sep, 2018

Updated: 8:47am, 3 Sep, 2018

Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecommunications equipment supplier, introduced its new Kirin 980 system on a chip at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, on August 31, 2018. Photo: Handout

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Li Tao

Li Tao is a senior technology reporter, based in Shenzhen. He focuses on big enterprises including Alibaba, Huawei and ZTE, hardware makers, and smartphone brands such as Oppo, Vivo and Oneplus. He joined the Post in 2017 after working for more than seven years with China Daily in Hong Kong. He has masters degrees in both laws and journalism.