Huawei’s Mate 80 series flagship smartphones are set to launch in the fourth quarter of this year, powered by the new in-house Kirin 9030 processor, which is expected to deliver a 20% performance improvement over the previous-generation Kirin 9020, according to local media outlet Icsmart. The lineup will reportedly return to a flat display design across all four models: standard, Pro, Pro+ and Ultimate. The standard model is said to feature a 6.75-inch, 1.5K flat screen, while the Pro variants will upgrade to a 6.89-inch, 1.5K dual-layer OLED flat display. The Kirin 9030 is believed to be built on a 7-nanometer process, though its core architecture remains undisclosed. For comparison, the Kirin 9020 featured a 1+3+4 CPU configuration — one 2.5GHz Taishan large core, three 2.15GHz medium cores and four 1.6GHz small cores — along with a Maleoon 920 GPU. [Icsmart, in Chinese]
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