Huawei is baking AI into its next mobile chip to outperform iPhones

We’re only days away from the launch of the next iPhone, and Huawei is already trying to one-up Apple with bold claims about its next product, the Huawei Mate 10. The next handset from the #3 phone maker on the planet will come with the company’s own Kirin 970 chipset, which will feature AI processing capabilities, making it the first-ever Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for smartphones. That should make for better sensing abilities on board the device, instead of having to rely on AI