is usually held every year in early December, while this year's summit will be advanced to mid-November. As early as July, Qualcomm announced that this year's summit will be held from November 15 to 17, and the location is still in Hawaii.
At previous Snapdragon Summits, Qualcomm always released its latest and most advanced mobile chipsets. So in mid-November, we may see the upcoming second-generation Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform, that is, next year, the "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" chip comes standard. Usually, other chips will be launched at the summit, such as the first generation of Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, which may usher in a wave of upgrades.
The "Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1" released in May this year, Qualcomm turned to TSMC's 4nm process, with a significant improvement in yield and enhanced performance and power consumption. "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" will continue to use TSMC's 4nm process. It is reported that it will save more power than "Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1" and will perform better in intensive workloads.
Samsung 's latest 3nm process did not impress Qualcomm. In June this year, Samsung announced the mass production of the world's first 3nm chip process in South Korea. is the most advanced technology in the manufacturing process of semiconductor . Currently, Samsung is the only manufacturer in the world that uses the next generation of new GAA (Gate-All-Around) architecture transistor technology to provide enterprises with 3nm process foundry services.
As Qualcomm's closest partner, " Snapdragon 888" and " Snapdragon 8 Gen 1" have been first released by Xiaomi in the past two years. The first model of "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" this time is likely to be the "Xiaomi 13" series. According to information shared by Xiaomi Update Philippines netizen , the upcoming "Xiaomi 13 Pro" will be equipped with the flagship chip, equipped with 12GB of LPDRR5 memory, and run the MIUI 14 system based on Android 13.
The netizen also released the parameter information of this phone: this device is code-named nuwa (Nuwa), certified model is 2210132C, and it is speculated that it should be an engineering prototype of "Xiaomi 13 Pro". It is equipped with a "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" processor, with a maximum frequency of 3.0GHz, and 12GB of LPDRR5 memory. The operating system is based on MIUI 14 of Android 13, with the kernel version of 5.15.41.
From the picture, this model still uses a curved screen design with a hole in the middle, and the body is relatively round. According to previous news, " Xiaomi 13 Pro" will still use a 6.7-inch curved screen, 2K high resolution, maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, and Samsung E6 material. "Xiaomi 13" code name fuxi, the screen is replaced with 6.36 inches, and the resolution is 1.5K.
has been reported that "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" will have two different frequencies, among which the high frequency version is within the range of 3.4 - 3.5GHz. The CPU of this model, which is suspected to be "Xiaomi 13 Pro", is displayed at 3.0GHz, which may be the testing and debugging data of the engineering machine. It is not certain which version of "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" is used.
"Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" is still manufactured by TSMC 4nm process, and CPU is still designed with octa-core, but it is very different from the previous generation "Snapdragon 8 Gen 1". It will be upgraded from 1 + 3 + 4 architecture to 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 architecture: Cortex X3 large core, two Cortex A720 medium cores, two Cortex A710 medium cores and three Cortex A510 small cores, while the GPU specification is Adreno740. For comparison, the "Snapdragon 8 Gen 1" eight-core CPU is one Cortex X2 large core, three Cortex A710 medium cores and four Cortex A510 small cores, and the GPU is Adreno 730.
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