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Huawei's Mate 10 smartphone is powered by the AI-specific Kirin 970 chips, built using a 10nm process atTSMC featuring an octa-core ARM Cortex CPU, a Mali-G72 12-core GPU and a neural processing unit (NPU) designed specifically for a mobile device, according to the vendor.

The NPU, combined with Huawei's HiAI mobile computing platform, enables the Kirin 970 to deliver 25x better performance and 50x greater energy efficiency for AI-related tasks, compared to four Cortex-A73 cores, Huawei claimed.

The Mate 10 comes with a 5.9-inch LCD Quad HD screen with a 2,560 by1,440 resolution, 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage that can be expanded up to 256GB via a microSD card. It features dual 4G SIM support and dual VoLTE connections.