According to the past rhythm, technology reporters at this time should enjoy the Hawaiian sea breeze while experiencing Qualcomm’s new products and technologies. And this year, due to the impact of the epidemic, the Qualcomm Technology Summit was changed to an online recording and broadcasting format. Although the beauty was missed, Qualcomm’s annual flagship Soc update came as scheduled.
How important influence Qualcomm has in this industry does not need to be emphasized again. As the company’s president Cristiano Amon said in his speech, smartphones have become the largest platform in human history, and Qualcomm’s flagship processor has a guiding role for a large number of models in this platform.
About this new product, you must already know that this year’s new 8-series Snapdragon processor follows the past naming method, but has changed its name like Kirin 9000, It is directly called “Snapdragon 888” “, when it was introduced at the press conference, it really read “snapdragon eight eight eight”, which sounded a bit hot.
So the new 6-series mid-range chip will be called “Snapdragon 666” in the future? If there are 9 series in the future, it is called “Snapdragon 996”?
Well, if you have to find a reason, it is that this year’s new platform, using Arm’s latest Cortex-X CPU series, is a new start. Of course, it is more likely to ask for a good sign for customers from China.
First, let’s take a look at the specific parameter performance:
In May of this year, ARM’s annual routine update, released the A-series routine update A78, and a newly opened product line Cortex-X CPU core customization series, the so-called “super core”, according to official data, The design of one X1 core, three A78 cores and four A55 cores can achieve 30% while only increasing the board area by 15%The peak performance of X1 has been improved, and the machine learning performance of X1 has also doubled compared to A77.
Snapdragon 888 has also become the first chip manufacturer of Cortex-X CPU. The large core of Snapdragon 888 has changed from the previous A series to the new X1. The performance is naturally substantial. Upgrade; and the A78, which was supposed to be the super-large nuclear position in the past, has become a major nuclear dimensionality reduction strike. Arm’s impressive performance also gave Qualcomm a substantial performance improvement.
In addition to the CPU, Qualcomm has given some data improvements. The performance of Adreno 660 GPU equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 has been improved by 35%. It integrates Qualcomm’s sixth-generation AI engine, which can achieve 2.6 billion operations per second; ISP also has a 35% increase in computing speed, which can process 2.7 billion pixels per second.
Support Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 transmission protocol, and support 144fps games at the same time, Elite Gaming has been upgraded to the third generation.
In terms of radio frequency, this time the X60 is matched with Snapdragon 888, which is also a 5nm process, supporting all major global millimeter wave and Sub-6GHz frequency bands, as well as 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM card function, independent (SA) and With non-independent (NSA) networking mode and dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), the uplink and downlink speeds have finally surpassed the Kirin 9000.
Lei Jun made his final appearance among the many guests in the speech session. In addition to business exchanges, he also brought an important news that Xiaomi will make the world’s first Snapdragon 888. In the past, this “honor” was often Samsung’s.
The domestic manufacturers OPPO and vivo also soon officially announced that new phones equipped with Snapdragon 888 will soon arrive.
Interestingly, Samsung was not included in the initial list. The first batch of 14 terminal manufacturers confirmed to be equipped with Snapdragon 888 in the future, except for LG and Sharp, the remaining 12 are all manufacturers from China (of course there is no Huawei, and there will be no glory for the time being), you should Can understand who is Qualcomm’s major customers, and for whom the name Snapdragon 888 is made.
2020 is considered to be a large-scale popularization of 5G mobile phones. Although the epidemic has put the brakes on offline activities, whether it is chip manufacturers, operators or terminal manufacturers, they all hope to strike while the iron is hot and take advantage of the update of the system to further expand their plates.
It is reported that this month, there will be a new domestically produced machine equipped with a Snapdragon 888 processor. Lei Jun called out the first release, and it is likely to be Xiaomi. This rhythm will be much faster than before.
The Kirin processor suffered a severe setback. Samsung and MediaTek are not a threat for the time being. The partners took turns on the first day of the summit. Qualcomm’s alliance is still solid. The addition of the “super core” will also allow Andro next year.The performance of id flagship machine is worth looking forward to. Of course, the first day of the technology summit is more about introducing Qualcomm’s overall vision, strategy, and specific performance. We need to wait until tomorrow’s technical details to be announced. We will continue to follow up as soon as possible.