Huawei's Kirin 9050Pro debuts globally with 142% GPU boost and 30B on-device MoE model
智东西 · wechat · 2026-09-07
Huawei held its first global launch event in six years, unveiling the MateXT2 tri-fold phone, HarmonyOS 7, and the long-awaited Kirin 9050Pro flagship SoC.
- Chip: 42% overall performance gain over the previous tri-fold; 9-core Linxi CPU with +24% single-core and +52% multi-core; self-developed Maleong GPU doubles compute units for +142% rendering; DaVinci NPU claims industry-first on-device MoE with 30B total/2B active parameters, enabling offline Pangu-based AI gallery sorting; Balong baseband lifts satellite paging success rate by 42%.
- MateXT2: G-shaped folding, 3.5mm unfolded thickness (thinnest tri-fold), hardware-level privacy display, over 1 million tri-folds shipped globally; priced from 19,999 RMB to 24,999 RMB.
- HarmonyOS 7: Celia (Xiaoyi) gains system-level agent capabilities to invoke Skills for job-hunting, call assistance, and smart-home control; a new AI entry sits in the dock; "super space storage" reclaims up to 109GB on 1TB devices.
With Huawei's flagship chip return, the piece frames a coming flagship battle against Xiaomi and Apple.
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