Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 480 launches new wave of 5G phones

Qualcomm has officially announced the Snapdragon 480 5G, the company’s latest 5G processor, and the first in its Snapdragon 4 series of chips, leaving Android devices cheaper than most of Qualcomm’s 5G efforts to date. money.

The news of a 4G 4G series chip was originally teased at IFA 2020, but today’s announcement is the first real details for the new processor. The Snapdragon 480 features an integrated Snapdragon X51 modem with support for both mmWave and sub-6 GHz networks.

The addition of 5G to the 4 Series could be one of the biggest factors in making the next generation network standard more accessible to users around the world. Right now, most 5G phones cost $ 500 more – the technology is usually limited to mid-range and flagship phones. But by adding it to the Snapdragon 4 Series, Qualcomm enables manufacturers to easily add 5G to their cheapest phones in the $ 125 to $ 250 range. This means that 2021 may be the year in which 5G phones are truly budgeted.

But the Snapdragon 480 is not only interesting because of its 5G support – it also promises to offer a big jump in performance compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 460. Qualcomm specifically says that the Snapdragon 480 has twice the performance of the guy must offer. model for both the CPU and the GPU, with a 70 percent improvement for AI tasks. (Specifically through new Adreno 619 GPU, Kryo 460 CPU and Qualcomm Hexagon 686 chipsets.)

There are also several features that have fallen away from previous premium Snapdragon products, making their debut on the budget line for the first time. The Snapdragon 480 is the first 4-series disc to use an 8nm process, the first to support Quick Charge 4 Plus, the first to support 120 fps FHD + panels, the first to offer 64-megapixel still photos, and the first is a triple ISP for triple camera integration that can take up to three photos simultaneously. Again, none of this is new features, but it should enable the expansion of the cheap phones, especially when combined with the performance improvements of the CPU and GPU.

The first phones with the Snapdragon 480 are expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2021. HMD’s Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi, Motorola and Nokia are some of the key companies that are expected to release mobile phones with the new chip in the coming months.