Continuing to be plagued by the yield rate of Samsung's 4nm process and the high energy consumption caused by its own design defects, Qualcomm has recently frequently reported that qualcomm wants to advance the release plan of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus and switch to TSMC OEM. Due to the uncertain future of the high-end flagship model, in order to stabilize the mid-range smartphone SoC market, the news of the snapdragon 7 series new SoC has been exposed, and from the outflow of parameter information, this chip will be built using Samsung's 4nm process.
According to the parameters of the digital blogger's exposure chip, the new Snapdragon 7 Series SoC will carry four 2.36GHz Cortex-A710 large cores + four 1.8GHz Cortex-A510 small cores; the GPU is Adreno 662.
Referring to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 specifications, the Cortex-A710 equipped with the new Snapdragon 7 Series SoC is also used in today's flagship products. Due to the reduction of its branch unit width from 6 to 5, it has improved energy efficiency and removed a scheduling pipeline stage, which has increased efficiency.
Referring to the current Snapdragon 7 series mainstream SoC, the snapdragon 780G and 778G with the "three clusters" architecture are the best cost performance, and these two products are equipped with a frequency of 2.4GHz A78 super core, 3 2.2GHz A78 large cores and 4 1.9GHz A55 small cores. And from the perspective of landing smartphone models, they all have a good price-performance ratio, but the actual sales are unknown.
For the new SoC parameters of the Snapdragon 7 series exposed this time, I believe that everyone is most worried about the high probability of choosing Samsung 4nm process. However, considering the strong release of the Tianji 9000 series, and the Redmi K50 Pro took the lead in starting at 2999 yuan, as well as the Tiger Eye of the Tianji 8100 and 8000, I believe that the mid-market competition, Qualcomm can be described as a higher difficult coefficient.
In any case, the technological innovation of the upstream chip giant has promoted the iterative update of the smartphone industry, but in the face of the slowdown in consumers' willingness to change machines and the gradual disappearance of the 5G dividend, how to stabilize the market share of smart phone manufacturers in 2022 is a problem.