Huawei Mate 80‘s Kirin 9030 series chip is still buzzing around, not for its major performance improvements but for its necessary specifications, which include Samsung memory solutions. Besides the Chinese components, it looks like Huawei devices still rely on foreign tech parts to some extent.
SemiAnalysis (via SemiconductorX) reported that Huawei Kirin 9030 chip uses both Chinese and Samsung LPDDR5X memory components for Mate 80 phones.
Breaking it further, the report says that the Kirin 9030 Pro chip running on the 12GB Mate 80 Pro model has the Samsung K4L2E165YD (1a node) memory solution.
Samsung Memory
It is generally the LPDDR5X-9600 mobile DRAM fabricated on a 1a node. It is the fourth generation of the company’s 10 nm-class DRAM process and can deliver fast and power-efficient data processing. SemiAnalysis mentioned that:
“The Pro variant of the Kirin 9030 carries 12 GB of Samsung DRAM, with two stacks of four dies each. The dies were identified as the K4L2E165YD […] 1a has shipped in volume since 2022, so this is current memory rather than older-node inventory.”
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Kirin 9030 Pro on the 16GB Mate 80 Pro Max handsets includes a CXMT memory component CXDD7JEDM (G4 process). It is roughly equivalent to other 1z processes.
The information suggests that CMXT is picking up in the game. It is ramping up with real memory chip production and can contribute to China’s progress in the future.
Currently, Kirin 9030 analysis reveals that some chip components are about 19-22% smaller than the previous version. As a result, the new chipset is faster and more efficient than the past variants. But it still lags compared to the latest mobile SoCs.
Good news is that Huawei is taking a new approach in the chipmaking tech – LogicFolding design concept for 2026 Kirin chips. Perhaps this time, it may finally ditch the US products completely for its own creations.
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