Chipset powering the refreshed Huawei MatePad Pro 11″ tablet might not be a mystery after all،
The other day we told you that Huawei was planning to refresh its MatePad Pro 11″ tablet and that although many specifications from the 2022 model were being kept for the 2024 version, Huawei was limiting the next variant of the tablet to Wi-Fi connectivity. Fi. The 2022 model offered a cellular and Wi-Fi option with only Wi-Fi. Huawei also planned to use its own Kirin 9000s 5G chipsets for the new tablets compared to the Snapdragon chips used on the older MatePad
Pro 11″ 2022.
The 7nm Kirin 9000s 5G Application Processor (AP) was surprisingly found in the Mate 60
series, allowing Huawei to bring 5G natively to a phone for the first time in three years. This is due to US export rules that prevent foundries using US technology to make chips from shipping cutting-edge semiconductors to Huawei. The Kirin 9000s 5G SoC was manufactured by China’s largest foundry, SMIC, using the latter’s 7nm process node and as they support 5G, the inclusion of silicon in the Mate 60 series helped trigger a wave of nationalism in China.
Now, something that occurred to me when I was writing the MatePad Pro 11″ (2024) story yesterday was that without offering cellular connectivity for the tablet, why the new version of the MatePad Pro 11″ would she need a Kirin 9000s 5G AP? We might have found the answer to this question thanks to a
Geekbench benchmark test which showed a Huawei product with the Huawei model number XYAO-W00, likely the refreshed MatePad Pro tablet, powered by an unnamed and mysterious Kirin chipset.
Geekbench test for Huawei’s Mate PadPro 11 included a mysterious Kirin chipset
The chip that runs the tablet on Geekbench features an octa-core configuration with one performance processor core clocked at 2.49 GHz, three additional performance processor cores running at 2.15 GHz, and four efficiency processor cores clocked at 1.53 GHz. This is the exact configuration used for the Kirin 9000s 5G. The Geekbench scores for single-core and multi-core were 1244 and 3793, respectively, which matches the score of the Kirin 9000s 5G used on the Mate 60 series, as well as the Snapdragon 865 SoC from 2019. Yes, despite the distinctions, the chip Kirin 9000s is theoretically four years behind other flagship chips.
Since 5G isn’t required for the new tablet (remember, it doesn’t have cellular connectivity), the Kirin chip that came with the MatePad Pro 11″ on Geekbench could have been the Kirin 9000 without 5G support. We We should point out that the Geekbench test showed that the MatePad Pro 11″ tablet will sport 12 GB of RAM, which perfectly matches the specifications we announced to you last night.
With everything lining up perfectly, it’s clear that the device that was put through the Geekbench test was the Huawei MatePad Pro 11′ (2024) powered by a Kirin 9000s SoC without 5G support.
