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@ 2018/12/07Always connected and always on 7nm new SoC
Qualcomm's Sanjey Mehta, SVP and General manager of compute products, and Miguel Nunes, senior director of compute products, introduced and showed off a few features of the Snapdragon 8cx, a SoC that many called Snapdragon 1000 or 8150/8180. This is a SoC built from the ground up with a bigger Adreno 680 GPU, still fanless and with a lot of new tricks.
Miguel detailed that there is an eight-core Kryo 495 CPU inside. manufactured on a 7nm technology and a larger system cache, including L3 cache. There is a total of 10 MB cache available.
The new Adreno 680 is twice as fast than the napdragon 850, Snapdragon X24 2Gbps modem as features some new tricks including USB 3.1 Gen 2, PCIe, Alexa, and Cortana support, as well as the Qualcomm Aqstic and the Aptex HD for better wireless audio and dual 4K external monitors.
The new platform supports NVMO and UFS 3.0 storage, LPDDR4X and it targets 7W TDP with fanless designs. Miguel pointed out that Qualcomm wants to stay fanless, unlike its 15W TDP competitor.
Qualcomm's Sanjey Mehta, SVP and General manager of compute products, and Miguel Nunes, senior director of compute products, introduced and showed off a few features of the Snapdragon 8cx, a SoC that many called Snapdragon 1000 or 8150/8180. This is a SoC built from the ground up with a bigger Adreno 680 GPU, still fanless and with a lot of new tricks.
Miguel detailed that there is an eight-core Kryo 495 CPU inside. manufactured on a 7nm technology and a larger system cache, including L3 cache. There is a total of 10 MB cache available.
The new Adreno 680 is twice as fast than the napdragon 850, Snapdragon X24 2Gbps modem as features some new tricks including USB 3.1 Gen 2, PCIe, Alexa, and Cortana support, as well as the Qualcomm Aqstic and the Aptex HD for better wireless audio and dual 4K external monitors.
The new platform supports NVMO and UFS 3.0 storage, LPDDR4X and it targets 7W TDP with fanless designs. Miguel pointed out that Qualcomm wants to stay fanless, unlike its 15W TDP competitor.
