Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 480: Integrated 5G for low-cost smartphones

Tram Ho

Qualcomm recently officially launched the Snapdragon 480 chip, this is the cheapest 5G modem integrated chip introduced by Qualcomm until now, and is also an effort of Qualcomm and the family. Phone makers will spread 5G this year.

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The new Snapdragon 480 chip is a 400 series chip, the first 400 series chip built on an advanced 8nm process. Besides the ability to support 5G network technology (both mmWave and sub-6GHz) thanks to the Snapdragon X51 modem, the performance is also one of the significant upgrades of this chip compared to previous 400 series chips.

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Specifically, Snapdragon 480 includes 8 cores: 2 Cortex-A76 performance cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 6 Cortex-A55 power-saving cores clocked at 1.8GHz. In addition, the Snapdragon 480 also comes with Adreno 619 graphics GPU, DPS Hexagon 686 digital signal processor and Spectra 345 image signal processor with support for up to 64MP camera resolution. As a result, compared to the Snapdragon 460 generation, Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 480 5G brings improved CPU and GPU performance by up to 2 times, and AI processing performance also increased by 70%.

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Compare specifications Snapdragon 480 and old 400 series chips

At present, the cheapest 5G smartphones are equipped with chips from MediaTek. This low-cost 5G smartphone segment will soon become popular in the future, and with the new Snapdragon 480 chip, Qualcomm can help manufacturers lower the prices of 5G-enabled devices to even cheaper prices. .

Expected, the first smartphone equipped with Snapdragon 480 chip will be launched in the first quarter of this year. Major manufacturers such as OPPO, Xiaomi, Vivo, Motorola and even HMD Nokia are expected to introduce low-cost 5G smartphones equipped with this new chip.

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