Qualcomm previously released the Snapdragon 780G chip, as well as the new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip. The Xiaomi 11 Youth Edition debuted exclusively with the Snapdragon 780G chip, and the OPPO Reno 8 Pro debuted with the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip. However, the number of new models released later is very small.
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It was previously reported that the new series of Snapdragon 7 chips will be built with TSMC technology, but now it seems that the iteration speed will not be so fast. Weibo blogger @Digital Chat Station said that TSMC’s N4 will really iterate the Snapdragon 7 series chips to be released next year.
It is suggested by Xiaomi in the comments, that the new thin and light device will be tested as before SM7450 (Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip), and the engineering machine adopts an FHD+120Hz domestic flexible screen, support high-quality eye protection dimming, front single-camera fill light, upgrade fast charging and video. It is expected that this device is the Xiaomi Civi 2 mobile phone. And after the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, Xiaomi still has two or three mobile phones to be released.
According to reports, the new Xiaomi Civi will be released in the second half of this year and will use a Huaxing screen, which is expected to support 1920Hz PWM high-frequency dimming and native 10bit shaking 12bit color depth.
The blogger previously said that next year’s mid-to-high-end mobile phones will be made by TSMC, and the Snapdragon 7 series chips can also focus on performance. It is expected that Qualcomm will release iterative chips such as Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 in the future.
Moreover, Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip was released in May this year. It 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.
