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Huawei MateBook Fold S could feature this new Kirin PC chip

Huawei MateBook Fold S pre-order begins, and the small foldable PC is expected to feature a recently released Kirin chip. The company will launch the compact computer next week with several notable upgrades, and its chipset is no exception.

Weibo tipster FixedFocus revealed that the Huawei MateBook Fold S will equip the Kirin XE90, a highly energy-efficient chip. The new PC processor debuted in July this year at the HarmonyOS Computer Technology Summit, revealing Huawei’s innovation.

MateBook Pro S was Huawei’s first notebook to use the Kirin XE90 processor, and now the company is ready to integrate this SoC into another “S-tagged” PC.

Kirin XE90 unlocks major performance upgrades over the X90 chip. It claims to offer 23% single-core improvements, 25% better energy efficiency, and a 40% jump in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) throughput. It also brings improved self-heating capacity.

The tech maker says Kirin XE90 uses a ceramic composite thermal design and substrate micro-hole conduction technology to optimize self-heating management by up to 70%. The chip further supports hardware-based ray tracing capabilities.

Source – Weibo

Huawei Kirin XE90 uses SMIC’s 7nm process technology with a 10-core design. It adopts a 4+4+2 tri-cluster chip configuration with a main frequency clocked at 4.2GHz. The chip uses Maleoon GPU and a dual Da Vinci architecture-based NPU.

The Kirin XE90 further supports a 128-bit dual-channel LPDDR5-6400 memory bus and up to 32GB of RAM. After the MateBook Pro S, the Kirin XE90 seems to be the right choice for the upcoming compact MateBook computer.

MateBook Fold S appears more like a MatePad Pro when in the unfolded state. It features a Pura X-like cover screen on the back that will allow users to manage certain operations without even unfolding the device and going through a long process.

The device is ready to launch on November 24 in the consumer market. It will likely unveil many new upgrades over the original 18-inch folding-screen computer.

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