World first 7nm processor Hisilicon kirin 980 by Huawei's

• First commercial 7nm SoC
• First Mali-G76 GPU
• First Dual-NPU
• First ARM Cortex-A76 Based CPU
• First SoC supporting 2133MHz LPDDR4X
• First 1.4 Gbps Cat.21 Modem (peak download rate of 1.4Gbps is highest in the industry)

  
Introduced at the 2018 IFA, the new Kirin 980, the world’s first 7nm smartphone SoC (system-on-a-chip) with a dual-core NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit).It uses an 8-core CPU design with 2x high-performance Cortex-A76 cores and 2x "power-efficient" Cortex-A76 cores and four little Cortex-A55cores operating at 1.8 GHz. Compard to the 970, the 980 features 40% power efficiency and 62.5% smaller die area due to the process shrink. The 980 ballooned to over 25% more transistors from 5.5 billion in the 970 to 6.9 billion. The 980 adds many enhancements, including a more powerful Mali G76GPU 

which should offer 30 percent more efficiency and let devices run a wider variety of high-end games. Then, there's the 1.4Gbps Cat 21 LTE modem, which should offer faster cellular data transfers, and new support for 2,133MHz LPDDR4X RAM should enable speedier multitasking. The Kirin 980 will also be compatible with Huawei's Balong 5G modem in preparation for next-gen networks, and packs dual image signal processors that promise better photo quality.It incorporates a new dual-neural processor designed for AI acceleration that will accelerate AI applications such as facial recognition, object detection, and object segmentation. It can process 4500 pictures per minute and is 2.2 times faster than the Kirin 970 NPU. Huawei says the dual NPU performance is almost two times higher than the Snapdragon 845 and three times higher than the Apple A11.
Huawei will start using the Kirin 980 in its next generation smartphone handsets, the Huawei Mate Pro series, from October 2018.