Looking at the 888’s flagship features, Qualcomm continues to use a few of the themes that have been shown in previous years, but has reduced them somewhat. Camera and 5G capabilities remain key, and leveraging those capabilities is a priority for Qualcomm. The company has also increased interest in mobile gaming over the past few years. At least according to early Qualcomm reports, this could be a sign that these technologies are not advancing as quickly as expected, as the company has been focusing on virtual and augmented reality.
Qualcomm has revealed details about the new flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset, the processor that will be used in most of next year’s top Android phones, including the US and Canadian versions of the Samsung Galaxy S21 and OnePlus 9.
Qualcomm dominates high-performance Android smartphones in the US. Some phones in the US use MediaTek processors, but the market is mostly split between Qualcomm for Android and Apple with the iPhone family.
So far, only one company has announced Xiaomi – the Snapdragon 888 phone with Mi 11. However, “we expect more products to be released in the first quarter of 2021,” Qualcomm says. Yesterday the company announced 14 manufacturing partners (Asus, Black Shark, Lenovo, LG, Meizu, Motorola, Nubia, realme, OnePlus, Oppo, Sharp, vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE).
Don’t get hung up on Samsung not being listed. Samsung aims to balance with flagship phones, some of which use Qualcomm chips, some use Samsung’s own Exynos chips, and sometimes they don’t play with chipset makers because they want both sets of phones to look the same.
The camera experience
There are many cameras in the phone now. Typically, however, you can only use two at a time: hybrid zoom, portrait mode, or dual recording front and rear. LG has experimented as if it were capturing three images at once, but in reality it shoots in quick succession. Spectra 580 ISP Snapdragon 888 can take three photos at the same time using different cameras.
Why? Qualcomm claims that the three cameras work simultaneously, so the transition between the cameras will be more accurate. For this reason no start and change time is required when the lenses are changed as zoom in and out. You can take three 28MP photos or three 4K videos at the same time, save them all (if you have enough memory bandwidth) select one or edit it later.
Triple ISP will work with a new image sensor called the “HDR Offset Sensor”, which simultaneously records 3 videos and creates a single high dynamic range 4K frame. Both photos and videos can be saved in 10-bit color.
According to Kud Hip, vice president of product management at Qualcomm, the image processor is even faster this year. Suitable for sports and action photography, it is 35% faster than last year’s device, can now take 2.7 gigapixels per second and 120 photos per second in Blast mode. Waiting for screen usage at 120fps.
Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 888 is the first large fake camera to protect against deep penetration. There is a Tropic startup with at least one Qualcomm graduate who develops encryption technology that keeps photos unchanged. Content uniqueness is consistent with the initiative based on the Twitter-Adobe-New York Times collaboration. The Tropic will be equipped with the Snapdragon 865, but the 888 will be the first chipset to deploy this technology extensively.
Supported by 5G speed boost
Snapdragon 888 incorporated the X60 modem into the chipset itself, which made the 5G modem an external component for two years at Qualcomm and then reverted to a unified modem. This is made possible by a new 5nm manufacturing process. This makes everything less, resulting in lower power consumption and longer battery life in 5G.
The X60 was announced earlier this year, and is expected next year as the flagship modem for the Apple iPhone 13 series and Android phones. An important feature is the ability to connect many non-connected channels in the 5G spectrum, both below and above 6 GHz. This marks the end of a time where ATG national networks are 5G slower than 4G. Verizon because telecom operators can connect 4 more and 5G bands more freely. AT&T and T-Mobile will also increase the potential for high-frequency millimeter wave networks. Instead, it can be connected to another 5G band instead.
Cristiano Aman, president of Qualcomm, said, “For a wide range of ways to gain power, including [5G].” He said. With a 6 GHz band spectrum, carriers that have been frozen for years will capture one or two 5G channels when speed is needed. … hopefully career collections are more common. Reaching 2021 on existing spectrum and millimeter wave bands. ”
The X60 also uses a new, thinner QTM535 antenna module that lets you use even smaller 5G phones.
AI technology overview
The artificial intelligence (AI) engine in smartphone chipsets is the hardest part to understand because it is rarely used to run all applications. Instead, it expands some of the features of the app, such as scene recognition or speech recognition.
Qualcomm’s new Hexagon 780 AI engine performs 26 trillion operations per second compared to the 11 TOPS nerve engine in the Apple M1 chipset. According to Qualcomm, this is 43% faster than last year. Integrated Integration Detection Center, 888, integrated with phone interception, activity detection, voice event detection, traffic accident detection, etc. can detect various situations including it.
Qualcomm has demonstrated what Snapchat can do in a new software suite that uses AI processors. Snapchat makes your lenses faster, more accurate and more dynamic.
As mentioned, the autofocus in the camera also plays an important role in improving color balance and scene detection. And artificial intelligence makes the partnership between Qualcomm and Tropic more relevant against fake users by allowing almost horrific images.
“You can interact with other people / characters by deleting characters and putting yourself in a scene from a movie or recorded video,” said Jeff Gelhar, director of Qualcomm Technology.
About the CPU
Qualcomm has not looked at the processor for many years. The company has long claimed that this is not due to the transfer of much of its work to the CPU, as it focuses on complex workloads using many specialized processors. All of these are good for smartphones, but Qualcomm’s different computer systems are not seen on laptops.
Apple has focused on Qualcomm Cryo processors for better performance with ARM M1-based Macs. In general, computers rely more on CPUs than smartphones because of the way operating systems and applications are written. Although Qualcomm is not releasing a new PC chipset today, the Snapdragon 6 Cryo 8060 processor could play a role in Qualcomm’s upcoming Windows PC chipset.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 888 delivers 25% better performance and 25% more power efficiency than previous generations. The chipset is the first three-cluster architecture of a Qualcomm processor. Previous Qualcomm chipsets had a single Prime, Performance Core and Skills Core but Prime and Performance Core differed in the same design.
The 888 has an ARM Cortex-X1 core of 2.84 GHz.3 High-Performance 2.4 GHz Cortex has 78 cores; The four cores came in 55 cores at 1.8 GHz. If Qualcomm follows the app in recent years, it will release 3 GHz around 888+ overclocked single-cores.
The Apple M1 chipset uses a special core design with four powerful Firestorm cores powered up to 3.2 GHz and four efficient Icestorm cores powered up to 2 GHz.
At least Geekbench’s cross-platform testing is far ahead of the M1 Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865+, so Qualcomm has to work hard to hold the laptop’s chipset. The GeekBench 5 scanner shows that the M1 has about 1,725 single-core, 7,550 multi-core and the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra self-test 973 single-core and 3,249 multi-core capabilities. A 25% increase in performance does not meet the M1’s 865+ standard.
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