The 60 and 60 Pro currently remain the only two new smartphones in the Mate series that can only be pre-ordered through Huawei’s Chinese sales channels: https://www.vmall.com/portal/category/?targetRoute=CategoryList&tagid= TAG1143&categoryName=%25E6%2589 %258B%25E6%259C%25BA&prdName=Mate%25E7%25B3%25BB%25E5%2588%2597&secondTagid=TAG1157&searchResultPageProdShow=true&searchHistoryShow=true with no sign of the usual E or RS for now. In fact, the device manufacturer should revive the Pro+ variant from 2020 to complete the new range.
This “60 Pro+” is intended to adopt the new, more distinctive design of the 60 series, but perhaps with a new “Panda” finish and with even more cameras than the Pro. The new Star Ring camera body could include up to five cameras, plus at least one additional selfie camera, adding the high-end quad alternative to the Pro’s new triple functionality.
If the 60 Pro+ is indeed coming to market soon, it is more than likely that the 60 Pro+ will be a luxury model. Huawei will do this and once again remove its SoC from its promotional materials. Nevertheless, a new teardown of the WekiHome Mate 60 Pro seems to confirm that the series is indeed equipped with HiSilicon’s first SoC in generations.
The “Kirin 9000S” is and would emerge from SMIC’s 7-nanometer (nm) N+2 technology and according to the Weibo report (perhaps poorly translated, but whose title is not reassuring) “Unreliable LAB” of a traditional one 8-core processor with a now standard 1+3+4 composition.
A Geekbench 5 analysis reportedly showed unconvincing results of 2.26 GHz, 2.15 GHz and 1.53 GHz for these groups, respectively. Unreliable LAB points out that the 9000S’s alleged threads (“CPU 0-11”) are number 12, because the 4 slowest “small” cores are single-threaded, while the other faster ones have 2 each.
Regardless, each thread is credited with being able to reach the maximum speed of its respective core, although it appears that Geekbench can only fully evaluate seven of them. As a result, while Huawei could be making its own flagships again, it looks like the company is now several generations behind its rivals like Qualcomm and MediaTek.
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