Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset this week and phone makers queued up to declare their next flagship will have it – iQOO and Honor were among them. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is all about AI – the AI Engine supports multi-modal generative AI models and popular large language models for speech recognition – the chip can run up to 20 tokens per second for instant AI assistant responses. Qualcomm boasts that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 packs the world’s fastest stable diffusion, which can generate an image in a fraction of a second.
In CPU terms the 4nm chipset promises to be 30% faster and 20% more efficient than Gen 2. The eight-core processor inside is highlighted by 1 Cortex-X4 prime core running up to 3.3 GHz, five performance cores at up to 3.2 GHz, and 2 efficiency cores clocked up to 2.3 GHz. There’s LPDDR5x memory support up to 4800 MHz and up to 24 GB.
Qualcomm shared the reference benchmarks of the new SoC, too.
Xiaomi unveiled the Xiaomi 14 and 14 Pro – the first phones with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. They have 6.36-inch and 6.73-inch displays, a new 1/1.31″ main sensor, 3.2x zoom cameras, and Xiaomi’s new HyperOS. The pair is up for grabs in China with the global market eagerly anticipating a launch date.
We also saw the next generation ARM-based Qualcomm chip for PCs – the redesigned Snapdragon X Elite. It’s fabbed on a 4nm process node and features 12 high-performance Oryon cores clocked at 3.8 GHz with single and dual-core boost up to 4.3 GHz. Qualcomm states that its new CPU matches competing Intel 13th gen CPUs on multi-threaded performance while drawing 68% less power. There’s a comparison to Apple’s ARM-based M2 chip with the Snapdragon X Elite claiming 50% faster peak multi-threaded performance.
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series will be “the smartest AI phones ever”. The S24 series will allegedly have features very reminiscent of ChatGPT and Google’s own Bard – such as the ability to create content and stories based on a few keywords you provide. Samsung has also designed some additional AI features like text-to-image Generative AI, which it already talked about during the announcement of the Exynos 2400 chipset, which will be powering the S24 series in some markets. Speech-to-text will be improved with AI too.
In more certain upgrades, Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy S24 series will support communication over satellite for emergencies.
That’s it for this week – the full list of hot topics is below.
They are reportedly going to out-AI Google’s Pixels even.
The first phones with HyperOS will be unveiled on Thursday.
We also got some camera samples from the vanilla model.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, up to 3,000 nits of brightness, and a new design.
Along with enhanced camera capabilities. The first Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices are coming in weeks.
It is based on Android 14.
The phones will have Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
It gets 2.13 million in AnTuTu 10, and 2329/7501 in Geekbench 6.
The total score is over 2 million, all four components reach a new high.
Expect it to boast features that its predecessor lacked.
It is different from vivo T2 and exactly the same as vivo V27e.
It’s expected to go official in Q1 2024.
The tablets are officially announced by the company with a full specs sheet.
The upcoming midranger is expected to launch in China soon.
It’s powered by the same chip that its Indian counterpart has at the helm.
It’s on open sale from the official vivo India online shop as well as from Amazon.
The screen will have 1220p resolution.
The phone will be aimed at heavy gamers, with support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
It features 12 Oryon CPU performance cores with single and dual-core boost up to 4.3 GHz.
The day before Halloween, Apple wants to scare us with how fast its computers have gotten.
Featuring up to 2,600 nits peak brightness and A+ certification from DisplayMate.
Lenovo believes this is the key to a hands-free user experience in the future.
Davinci Resolve for ARM-baed Windows PCs is also in the pipeline.
It’s seeding in the US, the UK, and Germany.
The non-Pro S7 tags along without Wi-Fi.
Haslinda has worked with some of the largest telcos in North America and Asia. She loves tech and doesn’t like iPhone
