Huawei Shares Details of the Upcoming Kirin 970 SoC Cat S31, S41 Rugged Phones...

Huawei Shares Details of the Upcoming Kirin 970 SoC Cat S31, S41 Rugged Phones... xda-developers Sep 1, 2017 10:55 PM • by Doug Lynch Huawei Shares Details of the Upcoming Kirin 970 SoC About this time of the year we're used to hearing something from Huawei about a new Kirin SoC they've been working on. We were impressed with how well the Kirin 960 performed last year and compared it to multiple chipsets that were available at that time. Huawei is hoping to build upon that momentum this year with the upcoming Kirin 970. This time though, the company is marketing the addition of dedicated neural network silicon inside the chip. It makes sense that Huawei would want to focus on this too. Google has doubled down on their machine learning technology and we're seeing competitors building similar features in their chips. There are benefits to having this technology in the cloud as well as on the device as it will give developers more options for how they implement their product. Huawei is calling their technology a Neural Processing Unit (also referred to as an NPU), and its performance is said to be rated at 1.92 TFLOPs of FP16. Internal tests show this performance capability allows the Kirin 970 to process 2005 images per minute, which is up from 97 images per minute without the NPU. The new chipset from Huawei is similar to the previous Kirin 960 but sporting higher frequencies, being an eight-core SoC with four being Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.40 GHz and the other four being Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.80 GHz. The GPU Huawei has chosen to go with is the newer ARM Mali-G72MP12, but the company has yet to announce its clock speed. They did, however, confirm it will have a dual ISP, but again, didn't go into detail about its performance. It will be equipped with the Kirin 970 Integrated LTE modem (a Category 18 modem) with download capabilities of 1.2Gbps. The last bit of information that was announced at IFA this year was that it would be built on a 10nm process from TSMC. The company normally has big press events for their new chips, and since that wasn't the case at IFA, it is likely why they didn't reveal any more details about it. Adding to the scarcity of information, the only models shown were generic models hooked up to development boards. We'll just have to wait until Huawei is ready to know the full specs of the Kirin 970 SoC and which devices it'll be featured in. Source: AnandTech (Give them a visit for more info & coverage!) Android Advices Sep 1, 2017 5:30 PM • by Karunakar Donthamshetti Cat S31, S41 Rugged Phones and T20 Rugged Tablet Launched with 4G LTE Caterpillar Industrial is known for releasing rugged smartphones at an effective price in the segment. Now, this brand has showcased two new rugged smartphones and a tablet at an ongoing IFA 2017 in Berlin named as Cat S31, S41, and T20 Tablet. Earlier, this company has launched the Cat S60 rugged phone with an integrated thermal camera and Android Marshmallow for a price tag of £649.99. The Cat S31 phone is priced at £299, while the Cat S41 phone is cost at £399.00 and the Cat T20 Tablet is offering a price tag of £599. Cat S31: This phone sports a 4.7-inch HD 720p IPS display which supports a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and has an IP68 certification, which provides a waterproof up to 1.2m for 35 minutes. Also, it comes with a military standard MIL-SPEC 810G which protects from shock-proof and drop on concrete up to 1.8 meters. It is powered by Android 7.0 Nougat operating system and is packed with a Qualcomm MSM 8909 quad-core processor. It houses a 16GB of internal memory coupled with 2GB of RAM which also further expandable up to 128GB via microSD card slot. Regarding the camera, this phone offers an 8MP autofocus primary camera with LED flash and has a 2MP fixed focus selfie sensor at the front. The Cat S31 phone is kept powered by a non-removable 4,000mAh capacity battery, and the other connectivity options include 4G LTE, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB port and more. Cat S41: It comes powered by a non-removable 5,000mAh capacity battery with Pump Express 2.0 support which is rated to deliver up to 44 days of standby time and 38 hours of talk time. The Cat S41 has a super bright 5-inch display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and is provided with a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. This phone would also be supporting an IP68 certification, Military standard 810G, which provides a shock and drop proof. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM Radio and more. Under the hood, it packed with a 2.3Ghz MediaTek P20 MT6757 octa-core processor coupled with a 3GB of RAM. There is a 32GB of internal memory which also be further expandable up to 2TB via microSD card slot. This phone sports a 13MP primary camera with autofocus, PDAF, LEd flash and has an 8MP selfie camera with Fixed focus. It measures a 152 x 75 x 12.85 mm in dimensions and is weighing around 218 grams. Cat T20 Tablet: The rugged caterpillar T20 Tablet is powered by an IP67 certification which provides dust, water, vibration, and drop proof from a height of up to 1.8 meters. This tablet sports an 8-inch IPS LCD screen with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution and is backed by a non-removable 7,500mAh capacity battery. It comes powered by a Microsoft Windows 10 (home) operating system out of the box. Moreover, this phone has a Corning Gorilla Glass protection and has a 5MP primary camera & 2MP selfie sensor. It packed with an Intel Atom Z8350 quad-core 1.44GHz processor coupled with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, USB 3.0/ DC, Wi-Fi, Mini HDMI, Video Out, GPS GLONASS and more. The physical dimensions of the device are 220 x 143 x 14 mm and is weighing around 650 grams. This email has been sent by Froze ONE (isnanmm0@gmail.com). It is the potion result of 'Tech: Topic watch' from the dashboard 'Personal Dashboard', tab 'Tech > Android'. Unsubscribe © Netvibes 2005-2017 | Terms of service | Privacy Policy Find Netvibes also on: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr

Share on Facebook

Share on Twitter

Share on Google+

Share on LinkedIn

Subscribe to receive free email updates: