Competitive markets tend to be more dynamic, and thanks to the debut of The Tianji 9000 flagship chip, many people have said that "the flagship machine market in 2022 will look better than in previous years." After all, in previous years, flagship products were often only available to Snapdragon, but this year, many mobile phone manufacturers are using practical actions to prove that Tianji 9000 is also a quite eye-catching flagship chip.
On the evening of April 25, vivo held an X80 series new product launch, which has the ZEISS image we are familiar with and the self-developed chip V1+. But the most surprising thing is the X80 series of full range of liter cups. This year, vivo used the Tianji 9000 chip for the first time in the X80 full range of products, and at the press conference, the official also directly stated that the goal of X80 is to be the "king of Tianji 9000".
"King of Tianji 9000"
Indeed, through the actual measurement data of the previous Tianji 9000, this powerful 4nm chip not only sits on an equal footing with the Snapdragon flagship chip in terms of performance, but also makes MediaTek's chip gain a lot of passers-by. However, there have been many time nodes equipped with the flagship model of Tianji 9000 in the market, and the vivo X80 series, as a "latecomer", how to achieve the goal of "king of Tianji 9000"?
A 1+1>2 story
Two chips from different manufacturers working together on a device is not just as simple as "take it and install it", it requires both sides to establish a good tacit understanding, so as to digest the technical barriers as quickly as possible.
In order to fully demonstrate the energy efficiency advantages of Tianji 9000, Vivo has also made a lot of efforts at the energy efficiency level when jointly debugging with MediaTek System. On the X80, Vivo superimposed an algorithmic "buff" on the Tianji 9000 chip, which can adjust the CPU resource allocation strategy to reduce heat generation, and vivo also has a complex set of "user use scene fluency model", by increasing the priority of animation tasks, the overall animation fluency under high load scenes is increased by 50%.
After the fluency is improved, what is reflected in the hands of consumers is "fast" and "not stuck", but this is far from enough for vivo X80. In the face of complex application scenarios such as games, you can't rely solely on Tianji 9000, and at this time, vivo's self-developed V1+ chip will also play its role.
Self-developed chip V1+
In fact, it is not easy to integrate two chips from different manufacturers on one device. Chen Chaoxin, senior director of vivo system strategy center, revealed at the technical communication meeting: "Vivo and MediaTek have invested an elite development team of more than 300 people since last year, and after 350 days of in-depth collaborative development of software and hardware, the V1+ chip and The Tianji 9000 are adjusted and transparent, releasing the super performance of the Tianji 9000."
Judging from the results, the emergence of V1+ has further "reduced the burden" of the Already energy-efficient Tianji 9000. Because this chip not only undertakes the task of computational photography, but also an independent display chip. The game scene will call to the GPU, which will also lead to a surge in power consumption and serious heat generation. Vivo's "GPU Fusion" uses the AI computing power provided by the APU in Tianji 9000 to work together with multiple processors inside and outside to complete the screen rendering of the game with the GPU, thereby releasing part of the GPU load. At the same time, the stability of the frame rate is optimized by calling the hardware and interpolation algorithm of the self-developed chip V1+ to achieve a balance between performance and power consumption.
According to the official measured data, the vivo X80 equipped with Tianji 9000 and V1+ chips can run stably for 4 hours in the two modes of "90 frames + extreme picture quality" and "120 frames + high definition picture quality" of the glory of the king. A more stable and smoother game experience is the result of the joint innovation of vivo and MediaTek.
Thanks to this cooperation, Vivo has realized the joint tuning of Tianji 9000 and V1+ chips, which not only accumulates experience in joint debugging for vivo, but also allows users to get a better experience. Perhaps in the future, we can see the fusion of MediaTek + vivo self-developed chips in other vivo series of products. As long as it can bring users a better and more comfortable experience, I believe vivo will try to bring more users the "1+1>2" experience through the way of dual-core blessing.
Instead of "grabbing the first one", it is better to deeply polish the product
"First starters" often get more attention, so "grabbing first starts" has also become the norm in the smartphone industry. However, in vivo's view, the release of products still has its own rhythm, and the refinement of the chip can also allow more consumers to see the intentions of both vivo and MediaTek. In fact, from the perspective of "Tianji 9000 flagship", vivo X80 series did not come much later than other competitors, vivo and MediaTek used this time to jointly adjust the integration ability of Tianji 9000 and vivo's self-developed new product V1+, and optimized it from the aspects of performance, AI, imaging, games, communications and multimedia, so that the X80 series became a flagship of Tianji 9000 with a higher degree of completion.
Yang Qing, product manager of vivo X series
At the communication meeting, Yang Qing, product manager of vivo X series, said that vivo and MediaTek are highly consistent in their concept of cooperation, both adhere to the user-oriented, user-driven demand, and each other also sees the determination and confidence of both sides, and does their best to create together.
After the release of the vivo X80 series, "all departments equipped with Tianji 9000" has also become a hot topic for many consumers. In vivo's view, the choice of Tianji 9000 chip, one is to see that this chip has excellent performance and excellent energy efficiency ratio, and the second is that the two sides have established a good tacit understanding, after all, the two have also had many joint debugging experiences in vivo X70t and vivo S series products before, which are the key factors contributing to this cooperation.
"The King of Tianji 9000" is the goal of the vivo X80 series, which is also a big challenge for both sides. Because joint commissioning can not be completed overnight, but requires a lot of time, personnel, cost and energy investment on both sides. At the same time, in the face of the current complex environment, the teams on both sides also need to solve some problems in communication. However, both sides hope that this product can be made better and make consumers satisfied, and the vivo X80 series presented to us has also received unanimous praise from users.
Junnan Li, Technical Planning Director of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Division, and Genghao Zhang, Director of Product Planning
Vivo X series has more prominent imaging capabilities, and users of vivo X80 also believe that through IMX866 with V1+ chips and vivo's own tuning, vivo X80 equipped with Tianji 9000 has excellent camera standards, vivo X80 also uses practical actions to break the past impression of "MediaTek mobile phone camera ability is weak". In this regard, Li Junnan, technical planning director of MediaTek's wireless communication division, also said that for the cooperation of vivo V1+, Tianji 9000 also provides Tianji open architecture and vivo V1+ deep integration. At the beginning, the two sides set goals, so they also invested a lot of R & D manpower, combined with the advantages of the two chips, perfectly combined with the high-efficiency APU of Tianji 9000, the hdR and V1+ excellent processing capabilities of the hardware, so that all the scenes shot reached a better level.
Write at the end
As a new generation of "twin-core flagship", vivo X80 is naturally the top priority for product tuning in place. Tuning and penetrating a plug-in self-developed chip on the new platform requires sufficient preparation and accumulation to digest these hardware and technologies.
When tuning the twin-core flagship, MediaTek and Vivo are serious. Judging from the results, the fusion of Tianji 9000 and V1+ also achieved a wonderful chemical reaction on vivo X80. For vivo, dual-core fusion allows users to achieve a perfect balance of performance and power consumption in actual use scenarios, shaping the good reputation of the X series. For MediaTek, this cooperation between the two sides can further expand the market share of Tianji 9000 and stabilize MediaTek's position in the high-end chip market.