On September 24, the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit took place in Hawaii as scheduled. This year, Qualcomm brought not only numerical upgrades on the specification sheet but also a narrative shift. Unlike a decade ago, when the competition was solely about CPU frequency, core count, and GPU performance, Qualcomm has now placed AI at the very … Read more
Snapdragon 8 Series Snapdragon 888 (Super Dragon) Release Date: December 2, 2020, Qualcomm, USA Process Technology: Samsung 5nm CPU Architecture: 1×Cortex-X1 (2.84GHz) + 3×Cortex-A78 (2.42GHz) + 4×Cortex-A55 (1.8GHz), Qualcomm, USA Cache Configuration: L3 Cache 4MB, System Cache 3MB GPU: Adreno 660 (Frequency 840MHz), Qualcomm, USA Memory Support: LPDDR5-3200 5G Support: Integrated X60 Modem (Downlink 7.5Gbps), … Read more
In October 2023, Qualcomm launched the new Snapdragon X Elite platform, making another attempt to enter the PC laptop market, which subsequently led to the development of Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X. In the past two years, the Snapdragon X series laptops have gradually flourished, with major OEM manufacturers releasing approximately 150 different product … Read more
Recently, Qualcomm launched three flagship chips: the next-generation flagship mobile SoC chip Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (Snapdragon 8 Elite) mobile platform, Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, and Snapdragon X2 Elite PC processor, all utilizing 3nm process technology. The third-generation Orion CPU is specifically designed for AI applications, capable of seamless collaboration with Qualcomm’s Hexagon NPU to … Read more
Lei Technology AI Hardware Group | Editor: Sandwich | Supervisor: Luo Chao To be honest, the PC industry has been a bit quiet in recent years, almost like a stagnant pool. Everyone seems to have gotten used to the duet of Intel and AMD, with new product launches resembling toothpaste being squeezed out, calm and … Read more
Qualcomm has unveiled its flagship mobile and AI PC chips, providing a comprehensive analysis.Author | ZeR0 Editor | Mo YingOn September 24, at the Hawaii event, Qualcomm launched three flagship chips: the next-generation flagship mobile SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (Snapdragon 8 Elite) mobile platform, Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, and Snapdragon X2 Elite PC processor, … Read more
According to the Taiwan Industrial and Commercial Times, MediaTek successfully secured a large order for the OPPO R15 smartphone with the Helio P60 processor in the first half of the year. However, it was abandoned for the R17 series in the second half, forcing MediaTek to enhance the processor’s performance to compete for OPPO’s R19 … Read more
Keywords: on-device generative AI, NPU (Neural Processing Unit), heterogeneous computing, Qualcomm AI Engine, Snapdragon, AI software stack Unlocking on-device generative AI with an NPU and heterogeneous computing https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/Unlocking-on-device-generative-AI-with-an-NPU-and-heterogeneous-computing.pdf https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/artificial-intelligence This article has 13,299 words and takes 43 minutes to read, podcast 8 minutes Related ArticlesEvaluating the LLM inference performance and energy efficiency of Qualcomm 100 … Read more
Snapdragon 820 Specifications The Snapdragon 820 features Qualcomm’s proprietary 64-bit architecture, utilizing four Kryo cores with a maximum clock speed of 2.2GHz, produced using Samsung’s 14nm FinFET process. It supports Quick Charge 3.0 technology and is equipped with the Adreno 530 graphics processing unit, while the DSP digital signal processor is the Hexagon 680. For … Read more
For a smartphone, the processor is like its heart, determining the performance of the phone. Therefore, a good smartphone often needs to be equipped with a powerful processor chip. In today’s processor field, the main competitors are Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, and Huawei. However, since Samsung’s Exynos and Huawei’s Kirin chips are primarily used only in … Read more