Now, major chip manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers have said that they will launch 5G chips and 5G phones. It seems that the 5G era is very close to us. Without any surprise, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor will become next year. The standard of the big Android flagship product.
According to the news, the core of the Snapdragon 855 chip is ARM Cortex A76, which is 35% higher than the theoretical performance of the A75, and the power consumption is reduced by 40%. Thanks to the support of the NPU, the machine learning load capacity will be increased by 4 times. But the Snapdragon 855 Will not join the support for 5G network.
Recently, Slashleaks exposed a personal resume of Qualcomm engineers, which shows that the baseband of the Snapdragon 855 processor is X24. This baseband chip was released in February this year, it uses a 7nm process, and the download speed can reach up to 2Gbps. However, the Qualcomm Xiaolong X24 still belongs to the 4G baseband and is not compatible with the latest 5G standard.
According to the latest news, this processor will also be equipped with an NPU core. In short, it can make the operation more efficient and make the device smarter. This is an important part of the AI application. Equipped with NPU, then there will be more powerful support for AI devices.
It is worth mentioning that this processor not only supports mobile phone use, but also can be used in the automotive field. Qualcomm also adds a special SKU to the processor in the car usage scenario, that is to say, on different platforms. The processor will have different naming distinctions, including mobile phones, smart wearable devices, PC devices, etc.
