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To improve the security and efficiency of smartphones, Huawei has developed the new Kirin 650 chipset. Featuring silicon chip level security, the chipset ensures a reliable and secure interface for users.

Kirin 650 Specifications

The Kirin 650 comes with an advanced 16nm FinFET plus process technology that is integrated with octa-core CPU, Cortex A53 (4×1.7GHz + 4×2.0GHz), ARM’s Mali T830 GPU, LTE Cat.7 technology and an i5 coprocessor.

Why does your Smartphone need security?

Our smartphones are our most personal devices. Accumulated with personal messages, information, contacts and photos, our smartphones are also our most common way to check emails, social media accounts and transfer money through internet banking. There is, therefore, a need to keep all this data secure. The Kirin 650 comes with dedicated security mode (HiSEE) to ensure this user security.

Pseudo Base Station Defense Technology: Free of Fraud Calls and Junk Short Messages

Nowadays most phone users are harassed by calls from pseudo base stations. A base station is a fixed station in the mobile wireless network which acts as the transceiver with mobile phones. Now the count of pseudo base stations has been rising steadily in the Smartphone world.

These pseudo telecommunication base stations are irritating users by sending junk or fraud messages, fraud calls and by stealing personal information. This issue has not been solved for a long time but now Huawei has found a solution to provide more security to users from pseudo base station to avoid fraud calls and junk messages.

As a part of this, Huawei applies the pseudo base station defense technology to the Kirin 650 chipset. Pseudo base station defense technology is based on communication baseband processor (Baseband processor is a part of the chipset used in Smartphone that manages the communication process) and it is capable of identifying and rejecting the pseudo communications from fraud telecom.

Chip level HiSEE Security

The Huawei Kirin 650 is integrated with HiSEE security solution which helps in call encryption, secure mobile payment etc. The HiSEE security solution is designed to provide hardware and software data security of devices.

Many users use the fingerprint to unlock the device and make payments. It is, therefore, necessary to secure the fingerprint information. For security, the Kirin 650 provides Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB gives a secure memory block to stores the critical or dedicated data) where all the dedicated fingerprint information gets stored.

To achieve the highest level of security the Kirin 650 is backed with the ARM TrustZone environment. This technology stores all data in an encrypted format and provides hardware level security. This means that if a phone is rooted or violently dismantled, the data will not be compromised.

Fingerprint sensor interfaces and driver programs are encapsulated in TEE OS so the fingerprint sensor cannot be directly accessed by any third-party application. Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a secured storage area in the main processor (CPU) which offers the high level of security. TEE offers isolated execution to provide end-to-end security and it is considered as the most secured application available.

Conclusion

The Huawei’s chipset Kirin650 is protected by the HiSEE security solution. HiSEE security solutions store all data in encrypted form to safeguard user information. The Kirin 650 also provides RPMB where all the dedicated data will be stored and the high-level security is achieved by ARM’s TrustZone. Pseudo base station defense technology based on communication baseband processor is capable of rejecting all the junk message and fraud call. All these security technologies integrated into Kirin 650 to deliver the highest level of security.