Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 778G, X65 5G modem and more

Qualcomm announced several new products at its 5G Summit on May 19th, including a new smartphone chip, a new modem and more than.

Offset upward, Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 778G 5G Mobile Platform. The visitor says the 778G is already set to ability upcoming "high-tier" phones from Laurels (a onetime sub-make of Huawei that's not available in Canada), Motorola, Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi and iQOO.

"Snapdragon 778G was developed to address the growing need by global OEMs for more platform options in the loftier-tier. Snapdragon 778G brings many of the latest premium technologies and features into the high-tier to help make side by side generation experiences more broadly accessible," said Kedar Kondap, VP of production management at Qualcomm Technologies.

Qualcomm highlighted the 778G's photographic camera, which features a "Triple Internet service provider" (image signal processor) that tin capture three photos or videos simultaneously. The organisation would allow someone to record from, say, a wide-bending, ultra-broad angle and zoom lenses at once and run up them together to make apply of the best aspects of each lens. Farther, the 778G supports 4K recording with HDR10+ and 'Staggered HDR' paradigm sensors that enables capture of computational HDR video.

The Snapdragon 778G also boasts powerful bogus intelligence (AI) capabilities thank you to its sixth gen Qualcomm AI Engine featuring the Qualcomm Hexagon 770 processor. The 770 can evangelize up to 12 TOPs and 2x performance while using less power than its predecessor. This AI Engine is the same one featured in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 780G.

For connectivity, the 778G sports Qualcomm'southward X53 5G Modem-RF system with mmWave and Sub-6 back up. It as well has Qualcomm'south FastConnect 6700 system and supports multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 6 speeds up to 2.9Gbps. The 778G supports Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6E as well.

Finally, when it comes to performance, the 778G uses Qualcomm'southward 6nm process and sports the Kryo 670, enabling a 40 percent uplift in overall CPU functioning. There'southward besides the Adreno 642L GPU, which Qualcomm says can render graphics upwards to forty pct faster than the previous generation.

Qualcomm expects the Snapdragon 778G volition be commercially available in the second quarter of 2021.

The new X65 modem boasts x Gigabit speeds

Qualcomm likewise unveiled its new Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF Organization, which builds on the company'southward fourth generation 5G solution with higher speeds and a software-upgradeable compages that Qualcomm says will allow it to hereafter-proof the modem as 5G continues to aggrandize.

Showtime up, the X65 boasts expanded mmWave capabilities, including support for upward to 200MHz spectrum. Qualcomm notes this will assistance with upcoming rollouts of 5G mmWave, especially in Cathay.

For consumers, the X65 sports improved power efficiency through technologies like 'Qualcomm 5G PowerSave ii.0.'

Qualcomm says the X65 will conductor in the era of ten Gigabit 5G connectivity, and the company says its the beginning 10 Gigabit modem-RF system. Qualcomm expects the X65 to be commercially bachelor in devices by late 2021.

Interestingly, Qualcomm also announced a mode to bring the X65 to laptops through an M.2 reference design. M.two, for those unfamiliar, is a type of connector usually used for compact SSDs in computers and laptops. Qualcomm's reference design will allow manufacturers to employ M.ii connections to add together 5G to laptops using either the new X65 modem or Qualcomm's X62 modem. The reference designs are already available to Qualcomm's customers and consumers may shortly see Chiliad.2 5G cards based on Qualcomm'southward designs in connected products presently.

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