#qualcomm_snapdragon

It's not just smartphones Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, the Snapdragon X Elite platform for Windows PCs, and the revolutionary Qualcomm S7 and S7 Pro Gen 1 audio platforms with Micro-power Wi-Fi support. The company also said that today there are more than 3 billion devices based on the Snapdragon SoC in the world. More than 3 billion devices with Snapdragon platforms are active worldwide [caption id="attachment_73702" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Snapdragon[/caption] In this case, Qualcomm is talking about currently active devices, and such a number does not seem impossible. At least because we are talking not only about smartphones but also about various wearable electronics, tablets, and even cars. Considering the announcement of Snapdragon X Elite, next year this army may be replenished with a fairly noticeable number of PCs.

The announcement will take place on October 26 There are only a few days left before the Qualcomm press conference, but the characteristics of the single-chip Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 were leaked online earlier. MSPowerUser published a leaked press slide, highlighting that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is built on a “1+5+2” architecture and is mass-produced on a 4nm process. The processor is 30% faster and 20 percent more energy efficient than its predecessor. As for the Adreno 750 GPU, it is 25% faster and more efficient than the previous generation. [caption id="attachment_73458" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Snapdragon 8 Gen 3[/caption] Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leaked before announcement This time around, the chipset maker has also invested heavily in GPU scaling, allowing games to be played at 8K resolution. The SoC supports features such as global illumination and ray tracing. Qualcomm equipped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with support for Unreal Engine 5, as well as Snapdragon Game Super Resolution. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will support 1080p resolution at up to 240 fps, but it is not yet known which games will run at this frequency. Claimed to be improved support for artificial intelligence applications, the Hexagon NPU is 98% faster and 40% more efficient than the previous iteration. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will feature Qualcomm's next-generation 5G modem, delivering 10Gbps downlink and 3.5Gbps uplink speeds. The SoC will also support Wi-Fi 7 and can reach speeds of 5.8 Gbps. In addition, support for USB 3.1 Gen 2 with a maximum bandwidth of 10 Gbps is announced, just like the A17 Pro USB controller. This update means that Android flagships with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and support for the aforementioned specification can be connected to an external display. [caption id="attachment_73459" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Snapdragon 8 Gen 3[/caption] The presentation of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is expected on October 26.

Smartphone running Android 14 with 16/512 GB of memory The Dimensity 9300 single-chip system demonstrated its capabilities in the popular AnTuTu benchmark. The result was published by Insider Ice Universe. The tested device ran the Android 14 operating system and is equipped with Dimensity 9300, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of flash memory. The result was more than 2 million points. And, judging by the first comments on social networks, this is significantly more than the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen3. [caption id="attachment_73233" align="aligncenter" width="342"] Snapdragon 8 Gen3[/caption] Qualcomm is making people nervous even before the announcement of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3. According to preliminary data, the Dimensity 9300 architecture will be very different from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, since it will include four Arm Cortex-X4 supercars - the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will have only one such core. Ice Universe was the first to accurately talk about the new trend for smartphones with waterfall screens, about the bangs in the iPhone X, the new design of the iPhone 14 with the Dynamic Island cutout, and different 200-megapixel image sensors. Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will be presented on October 26, and Xiaomi 14 will be announced on the same day.

It will appear next year We can finally understand which Qualcomm platforms will compete with Apple M in the PC market. Data from an upcoming presentation has leaked online, where the Snapdragon X Elite SoC is described.  [caption id="attachment_73021" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Snapdragon X Elite[/caption] Apparently, Snapdragon X will be a new line, and the Elite model will take the place of the flagship in it. The new platform will receive a 12-core processor based on Oryon cores. with a frequency of up to 4.3 GHz. These are new cores for Qualcomm, created based on the developments of Nuvia, which Qualcomm bought some time ago. All parameters of the SoC Snapdragon X Elite revealed The Adreno GPU (without a personal number or name yet) is characterized by a performance of 4.6 TFLOPS. This is a lot for an Arm single-chip system, but far from a record. For example, the Apple M2 Pro has a GPU with a capacity of 6.8 TFLOPS, while the M2 Ultra has a GPU capacity of 27.2 TFLOPS. In addition, teraflops describe “pure” performance, which has a very indirect relationship to the real tasks of ordinary users. [caption id="attachment_73022" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Snapdragon X Elite[/caption] The Snapdragon X Elite will also support LPDDR5X-8533 memory with an eight-channel controller, 136 GB/s bandwidth, and support for a maximum of 64 GB.  The Snapdragon X Elite was reportedly designed from the start with a focus on artificial intelligence. Therefore, there is a very powerful NPU unit here. In particular, the Stable Diffusion neural network is promised to work in real-time.   The rest includes Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, hardware encoding and decoding AV1. The platform will be produced according to 4 nm standards.  

They are for PC Qualcomm is preparing to rebrand its Snapdragon platforms, although this will not affect mobile platforms yet. The next generation of PC SoC will be called Snapdragon X Series. We will know the details in November. [caption id="attachment_65067" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Snapdragon X Series[/caption] Qualcomm Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Don McGuire spoke about this in his blog. He also confirmed that these are the same platforms that will receive Oryon processor cores. The Snapdragon X Series platforms are being prepared for release McGuire said these cores will make “quantum leaps in performance and power efficiency,” and “combined with the NPU, the new SoC will enable accelerated on-device user experiences in the new era of generative artificial intelligence.” Let us remind you that Oryon cores are based on the developments of Nuvia, which Qualcomm bought in 2021 for $1.4 billion. The new platforms are expected to disrupt the Windows laptop market in much the same way that Apple disrupted the MacBook market with Apple Silicon.