Qualcomm had previously released the Snapdragon 780G chip, as well as the new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip, while the Xiaomi Mi 11 Youth Edition debuted exclusively with the Snapdragon 780G chip, and the OPPO Reno 8 Pro debuted the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip.
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According to Weibo blogger, @Digital Chat Station broke the news, “Few of the follow-up models of the Snapdragon 780G and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chips use Samsung’s technology, and the new Snapdragon 7 series iteration will be transferred to the TSMC process.” It is expected that Qualcomm Iterative chips such as Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 will be released in the future.
The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip, released in May this year, is based on Samsung’s 4nm process and contains four Cortex-A710 cores and four Cortex-A510 cores clocked at 2.4GHz. Features an Adreno 662 GPU, delivering 20% faster performance than its predecessor. It also comes with an X62 5G modem capable of 4.4Gbps download speeds and dual 5G connections. WiFi-6E and Bluetooth 5.3 are supported along with Snapdragon Sound and aptX. The chipset supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
The Snapdragon 780G 5G chip, released in March 2021, uses Samsung’s 5nm process, including one Cortex-A78 core clocked at 2.4GHz, and three Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.2GHz, and four Cortex cores clocked at 1.9GHz -A55 core. Qualcomm promises a CPU improvement of up to 45%, mainly due to the doubling of the large core and the new micro-architecture used. Support LPDDR4X-2133MHz memory. Equipped with Adreno 642 GPU, which is 50% higher than the previous generation, and its graphics driver supports OTA updates. The Snapdragon X53 modem is used.
