Huawei chose to release the mate 40 in October, and Apple somehow delayed the release of the iPhone 12 to October. As a result, both parties will launch a new mobile phone in October at the same time. From the current situation, with the super performance of the A14, the iPhone 12 has won After receiving extensive attention, it clearly holds the lead.
In previous years, before officially releasing new flagship mobile phones, Huawei often publicized the technological leadership of new high-end chips. However, this year Huawei's attitude towards the new high-end chip Kirin 9000 is rather low-key. So far, it has not announced the details of the Kirin 9000 chip.
In contrast, Apple's A14 processor has appeared in the well-known performance testing software Geekbench. The performance of the A14 processor is smaller than expected. It is said that the A14 processor is only 17% higher than the previous generation A13 processor. Perhaps Apple also recognizes that the performance of the A14 processor is not satisfactory, so it emphasized at the press conference that the A14 processor is 40% higher than the previous generation A12 processor.
However, although the performance of the A14 processor is not ideal, considering that the previous A series processors are two generations ahead of the Android processors, this year's A14 processor continues to play Qualcomm's Snapdragon 875 without a problem.
Here is speculation about the performance of Huawei's Kirin 9000. Considering the obstacles to the cooperation between Huawei and ARM, it is estimated that the Kirin 9000 chip will not use ARM's latest X1 and A78 cores, while Qualcomm Snapdragon uses X1 and A78 cores and still can't do A14. This means that the Kirin 9000 can't do the A14 even more, and even lags behind the Snapdragon 875, which is why Huawei had to choose to handle the Kirin 9000 chip in a low-key manner.
The iPhone 11 released by Apple in September 2019 did not support 5G technology. At that time, the country had begun to push 5G mobile phones. Faced with the backwardness of technology, Apple drastically reduced the price of iPhone 11, and iPhone 11 became the world's best-selling smartphone. Since then, no Android phone has surpassed iPhone 11.
The iPhone 12 released by Apple this time has more favorable conditions. The A14 processor continues to crush the Android processor, and the iPhone 12 is Apple’s first smartphone that supports 5G technology. In order to win sales, Apple has further lowered the price of the iPhone 12 With many favorable factors, iPhone sales in the fourth quarter of this year will be very impressive.
In contrast, if Huawei’s Kirin 9000 lags behind the A14 significantly in terms of performance, it is difficult for it to surpass Apple in terms of other technical performance. How easy is it for the mate40, which lacks technological leadership, to compete with the iPhone12? In this way, it is not difficult to understand why Huawei no longer emphasizes technological advantages this time, but emphasizes that Kirin 9000 is Huawei's last chip, hoping to attract consumers' attention in this way.
It can be said that the iPhone 12 will be the most dazzling star in the fourth quarter of this year, and Huawei’s mate40 will not be able to compete with the iPhone12. Of course, there is no need to worry too much about the sales of mate40. After all, the output of mate40 is less than 10 million. Considering the sympathy of Chinese consumers for Huawei , Mate40 is expected to face a shortage of goods soon when it is listed.
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