Yes, kirin refers to Kirin. Huawei’s HiSilicon Kirin chip is represented by kirin. In addition, kirin also refers to Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd., which refers to alcohol, beverages and health food. A group with three main axes as the focus of enterprise development.
HUAWEI Kirin is a new generation flagship chip released by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. simultaneously in Berlin, Germany and Beijing on September 6, 2019.
Huawei Kirin plays the role of "dark horse" in the 3G chip war. Huawei's Kirin chip has a long history. It was established in 2004 to make some industry-specific chips, mainly supporting network and video applications, and has not entered the smartphone market. In 2009, Huawei launched a smartphone with K3 processor to test the waters, which was also the first smartphone processor in China.
Whoever wins the core of Huawei’s Kirin chip will win the world
In the mobile phone chip industry, especially in the field of high-performance chips, it is still in the lead among Qualcomm, MediaTek, HiSilicon, Samsung and Apple There are five companies vying for hegemony, but only HiSilicon and Samsung have both mobile phone terminal manufacturing capabilities and chip R&D capabilities, while Qualcomm and MediaTek only provide solutions without terminals; a special one is Apple, which designs its own chips but commissions production , and at the same time completely for your own use.
Among them, Samsung's Exynos chip is used only in its own high-end mobile phones, only Meizu uses it; and for many years, HiSilicon processors have generally been used in Huawei's star models.
Although Huawei chips are not open to other mobile phone manufacturers, they have entered the TV market. In October 2014, a chip from HiSilicon was selected by Coukaa for use in its new TV products. It can be seen that Huawei is creating a new ecosystem. This ecosystem mainly revolves around mobile phones, and extends to tablets, wrist bracelets, TVs, etc. through Kirin chips, and obtains the same quality of user experience.
Some people in the industry pointed out that when the industry develops to an advanced stage, the core of competition is no longer controlling the technology itself, but whether it can control the industrial ecology. In the post-4G era, those who get the "core" will win the world.