Last year for Qualcomm can be described as very difficult, the large-scale 5-nanometer process Snapdragon 888 has a serious power consumption problem, directly leading to the collapse of Qualcomm's reputation, but also pit a number of mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 888. In order to make up for it as much as possible, Qualcomm quickly launched the firefighter Snapdragon 870, which uses the same TSMC 7-nanometer process as the Snapdragon 865
Just the frequency of the CPU and GPU has been increased, although it is very conservative, but it has to be said that it is still a side solution. This year's Snapdragon 8 Gne1 also uses the Samsung process, but it has changed from 5 nanometers to 4 nanometers, but the performance has improved
It also makes the power consumption performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 not much better than that of Snapdragon 888, coupled with the efforts of old competitor MediaTek, which launched the Better Paper Performance Tianji 9000, which once again makes people wonder whether Snapdragon 8 Gen1 has become a replica of last year's Snapdragon 888. So the familiar old routine appeared again, and it is reported that Qualcomm has urgently contacted TSMC to push a new processor
The processor is codenamed sm8475, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is codenamed sm8450, which can be seen from the codename as an upgraded chip. However, in the official naming, it is still called Snapdragon 8 Gen1, but it has changed from Samsung 4 nanometers to TSMC 4 nanometers.
Because TSMC's 4nm process is more mature and stable than Samsung's 4nm process, it can reduce power consumption, heat generation and other effects, bringing a better experience, and the ultimate performance output should be stronger. Unlike the positioning of last year's Snapdragon 870 and Snapdragon 888, although the new Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is also to fight the fire, it directly suppresses the old Snapdragon 8 Gen1
Although it is rumored that the TSMC version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 will be listed in batches in the Q3 quarter, that is, after July, if TSMC gives power, Qualcomm does not want to delay for too long, after all, next year Q1 there will be new machines of Tianji 9000 released one after another, forming a blow to Qualcomm
Therefore, the TSMC version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 processor may be released in advance, for example, in March-April, which has been calculated very quickly. In this way, all the mobile phones equipped with Samsung 4-nanometer process Snapdragon 8 Gen1 that have been released or not released may be very embarrassing, especially the Xiaomi 12 series bears the brunt, and many netizens joke that Xiaomi has been pitted this time?