Huawei has officially announced the long-awaited Kirin 980 at IFA 2018. As expected, the chipset has a new die-size, as well as a new ARM core in some of its clusters. Huawei also claims that it outdoes its predecessors in terms of graphics and AI performance.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-finally-officially-releases-Kirin-980-processors.328490.0.html
They actually do claim a 178% efficiency gain, I'll be damned!