Huawei Mate 30 will get supercharged Kirin 990 chipset

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Huawei has announced the Kirin 990 at IFA 2019, the chipset expected to be in the upcoming Mate 30 Pro, launching on September 19 in Munich. The Kirin 990 is also the world’s second flagship 5G SoC and is the first to feature BM 3D, DSLR-level image noise reduction, not to mention dual-domain video noise reduction.

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Basil Kronfli

Basil Kronfli is a freelance technology journalist and content creator with a number of specialisms. He started his career at Canon Europe, before joining Phone Arena and Recombu as a tech writer and editor. From there, he headed up and runs Tech[edit], a technology YouTube channel, and has worked alongside this role at Future as a Senior Producer, sharpening his considerable video production skills. 


His technical expertise has been called on numerous times by mainstream media, with appearances and interviews on outlets like Sky News, and he provides Digital Camera World with insight and reviews on camera phones, video editing software and laptops, on-camera monitors, camera sliders, microphones and much more.