Yesterday, Qualcomm teased the launch of its latest flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 888. Now, the company has revealed details of its next-generation chipset. It implements 5G, along with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 for enhanced mobile experiences. There is an integrated 3rd generation Snapdragon X60 5G Modem-RF System that enables support for 5G sub-6 carrier aggregation and mmWave that can deliver speeds 7.5 Gbps.

The Snapdragon 888 is also supporting Global 5G multi-SIM, which allows for international roaming, managing personal and work numbers on the same phone. It has Wi-Fi 6E standard as well. The SoC comes equipped with 6th gen Qualcomm AI Engine with the new Qualcomm Hexagon 780 processor. The company says, “Snapdragon 888 delivers industry-leading power efficiency and performance with up to three times performance per watt improvement over the prior generation—all at an astonishing 26 TOPS.“

In the performance department, the Snapdragon 888 is manufactured using the 5nm process technology. There is Qualcomm Kryo 680 that generates up to a 25% uplift in overall CPU performance and allows top frequencies of up to 2.84GHz. It is paired with Adreno 660 GPU that delivers up to 35% faster graphics rendering compared to the previous generation.

The new Mobile Platform is further enhanced by the 2nd gen Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which integrates a dedicated low-power AI processor to enable use cases like screen awake, lift and activity detection, and audio event detection.

As for the cameras, it features Qualcomm Spectra 580 ISP with a Triple Image Signal Processor (ISP), which is capable of capturing from three cameras simultaneously at up to 2.7 gigapixels per second. The Qualcomm Spectra 580 ISP also debuts a new low light architecture, for brighter photos, even in near darkness. Also included is photo capture in 10-bit color depth in the HEIF format. Additionally, in collaboration with Truepic, the new SoC can capture cryptographically-sealed photos that are compliant with the open Content Authenticity Initiative standard.

The Snapdragon 888 can:

•Rec. 2020 color gamut photo and video capture
•Up to 10-bit color depth photo and video capture
•10-bit HDR HEIF photo capture
•4K Video Capture + 64 MP Photo
•8K Video Capture @ 30 FPS
•Slow-mo video capture at 720p @ 960 FPS
•HEIF: HEIC photo capture, HEVC video capture
•Video Capture Formats: HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision
•4K Video Capture @ 120 FPS
•4K HDR Video Capture with Portrait Mode (Bokeh)

The flagship chipset delivers Variable Rate Shading (VRS)for the first time to mobile devices. VRS improves game rendering by up to 30% for mobile’s most immersive experiences to date. Qualcomm Game Quick Touch increases responsiveness by up to 20%, which lowers touch latency.

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Qualcomm has started its first day of the Snapdragon Tech Summit Digital with the announcement of its upcoming Mobile Platform. Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile, compute, and infrastructure at Qualcomm Technologies, introduced the company’s latest flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform.

You can watch the livestream here.

The new chipset comes with the 3rd gen Qualcomm Snapdragon X60 5G Modem-RF System that enables global compatibility by offering mmWave and sub-6 across all major bands worldwide. Plus, it has support for 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM, stand-alone, non-standalone, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.

Further, there’s a new 6th gen Qualcomm AI Engine with a completely re-engineered Qualcomm Hexagon processor. It offers 26 tera operations per second (TOPS). The platform is further enhanced by the 2nd generation Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which incorporates lower-power always-on AI processing for intuitive, intelligent features.

The company also says that its latest flagship chipset features the 3rd generation of Snapdragon Elite Gaming that delivers “Qualcomm Technologies’ most significant upgrade in Qualcomm Adreno GPU performance.”

The Snapdragon 888 will further triple down on the future of computational photography and “transform smartphones into professional-quality cameras,” says the company. It will allow users to capture 2.7 gigapixels per second, or roughly 120 photos at 12MP resolution—up to 35% faster than the previous generation.

Snapdragon 888 is the most powerful mobile platform from Qualcomm Technologies ever. In addition to the industry-leading 5G connectivity, it has brought groundbreaking breakthroughs and innovations in AI, gaming, and camera. I’m glad that our new flagship smartphone Mi11 will be one of the first devices with Snapdragon 888. This is another cutting-edge product from us and will be loaded with various hardcore technologies

Lei Jun, Founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Xiaomi

Xiaomi’s Mi 11 will be one of the first smartphones to be powered by the Snapdragon 888 SoC. Plus, OEMs like ASUS, BlackShark, Lenovo, LG, MEIZU, Motorola, Nubia, realme, OnePlus, OPPO, Sharp, vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE will also launch phones with Qualcomm’s latest flagship offering.

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