In early December 2021, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform was launched as scheduled. In addition to the latest Arm v9 architecture CPUs and Adreno GPUs with significantly improved performance, its AI performance has also been significantly upgraded.
At the same time, Qualcomm has also cooperated with many mobile phone manufacturers to promote the rapid landing of Snapdragon 8 AI performance. According to the official statement, the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine equipped with Snapdragon 8 can empower imaging, productivity, natural language processing, security, gaming, and even 5G connectivity, fully covering users' daily use scenarios.
Up to now, many manufacturers have also brought a number of products based on the Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform, as well as a variety of ways to play.
As the first product, the Motorola Edge X30 brings new heart rate and blood oxygen detection. With the powerful AI computing power of Snapdragon 8, it can obtain the above data only through the front camera, without the need for special sensors, making daily health management as simple as selfies.
After that, the Xiaomi Mi 12 series brought the "Xiaomi Imaging Brain". Starting from the underlying image technology architecture, it can more effectively dispatch the performance of the whole machine, and bring all aspects of improvement to the experience of the imaging system.
In addition, the Xiaomi Mi 12 series also supports the all-thing focusing system, which can continuously lock the focus of faces, human bodies and objects in video shooting, effectively improving the film completion rate of video shooting.
Entering the new year of 2022, Honor launched the first folding screen product based on the Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform, Honor Magic V.
It is equipped with a Magic UI 6.0 system that fully combines AI and multi-screen linkage. It can continuously learn the user's usage habits, so as to optimize the experience of schedule reminders, application recommendations, and scene services, and optimize the mobile phone signal.
The above is naturally inseparable from the adjustment of smart phone images, functions and systems by various manufacturers, and the continuous improvement of AI performance of Snapdragon chips is also indispensable.
Take the latest Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform, for example, which uses the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine, has a Hexagon processor, tensor accelerator speed and shared memory are twice as fast as the previous generation platform. Combined with the joint improvement of other modules and software algorithms, the AI performance of the whole chip is increased by up to 4 times.
In addition, the Snapdragon 8 is equipped with a new 3rd generation Qualcomm sensor hub that supports a new always-on AI system with a multi-core architecture consisting of a dedicated AI processor, DSP, plus its own memory for processing contextual data streams, including voice, audio, sensors, and connectivity. At present, compared with the previous generation, the AI processor has increased AI performance by 75%, reduced power consumption by 50%, and can use AI to process more data information at very low power consumption, so as to empower the creation of more AI use cases and let smartphones "silently" improve people's lives from more fields.
At the same time, the Snapdragon 8 also increased the ISP to 18bit, and the computing speed increased to 3.2 billion pixels per second. And built-in a very low-power always-on ISP, which allows the phone to have a camera that can continue to work, which should be able to bring some new ways to play, while ensuring user data security and privacy.
As an upstream supplier of chips, in addition to the excellent hardware foundation of the Snapdragon 8 5G mobile platform, Qualcomm has also provided other help for the landing of many functions.
For example, the audio, imagery and game features are packaged into Snapdragon Sound, Snapdragon Sight and Snapdragon Elite Gaming, and some features are integrated into the Android operating system, so that functions and software developers can directly call. As well as providing the driver to Google and other brands in a timely manner to help the landing of new versions of the system and features.
At many mobile launches, we also hear statements such as "We work closely with Qualcomm". Although most of them will not elaborate on the specific "cooperative development" content, we can still see Qualcomm's efforts in the entire product production and optimization process in order to promote the landing of new features.
Not only the Snapdragon 8, Qualcomm's recent generations of mobile platforms have always brought about a leap in AI performance. This not only promotes the improvement of the imaging system of smart phone products, voice assistants, and application operation efficiency, but also brings users a better game and imaging experience.
Features such as screen supersing allow smartphones to render pictures at a lower resolution and then output at a higher resolution. While ensuring the gaming experience, it reduces heat generation and power consumption, and can also optimize the imaging effect and cloud gaming experience of the mobile phone.
In the future, Snapdragon chips will undoubtedly bring better CPU, GPU, and especially AI performance, better empower the functions of related products, and the actual experience of users.