#1090 - Chip race

This time, in addition to releasing a high-end processor, Qualcomm also released two mid-range processors and one low-end processor, a move indicating Qualcomm's desire to regain its market share.

One of the mid-range processors released by Qualcomm this time is a down-clocked version of last year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 processor.

After all, Qualcomm has now fully grasped the true meaning of 'toothpaste squeezing'.

As long as they make certain improvements to last year's flagship processor, it will become a brand new processor.

When that happens, naturally, many consumers will pay for this processor.

After all, the performance improvement of the improved processor is still very significant.

Moreover, it also has certain advantages in terms of price, which will naturally make it a major choice for various mobile phone manufacturers to choose this processor.

Furthermore, the manufacturing process of this new mid-range processor has abandoned the 5nm process used by Samsung in the past.

Instead, it uses the 5nm process of TSMC in Taiwan, Qualcomm's most trusted partner today.

The overall performance of this processor is much stronger than last year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 processor.

After all, frankly speaking, Samsung also had a certain responsibility for the overheating of last year's Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 processor.

Frankly speaking, Samsung's overall chip manufacturing technology is still somewhat inferior to that of TSMC in Taiwan today.

This is why Qualcomm now uses TSMC's process.

After the new down-clocking of this processor, the power consumption has also been slightly controlled, and there has also been a certain breakthrough in performance.

According to the current performance benchmark scores, the performance benchmark score of this processor should be around 720,000 points.

This is a very good and very powerful mid-range processor.

Qualcomm has temporarily named this processor the Qualcomm Snapdragon 860R processor.

The other one is a plain and ordinary upgraded version of a mid-range processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 770 processor.

Judging from the name of this processor, it is a regular upgrade.

This processor also uses the current 4nm manufacturing process of TSMC in Taiwan.

In terms of overall performance, it can basically reach the level of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor from two years ago.

The performance benchmark score of this processor is about 600,000 points, which is a processor currently created by Qualcomm for the mid-range market.

However, the CPU performance of this processor is very strong, but the GPU is slightly behind the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor from two years ago.

However, Qualcomm believes that the performance improvement of this processor is the largest mid-range processor improvement in Qualcomm's history.

Qualcomm also believes that this processor will definitely be recognized by the market and consumers.

In addition to this mid-range processor, Qualcomm also released a low-end entry-level processor.

The name of this low-end entry-level processor is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor.

The target of this processor is the mid-to-low-end processors of Hua Xing Semiconductor and MediaTek.

After all, the low-end processors of Hua Xing Semiconductor and the mid-to-low-end processors of MediaTek last year can be said to have very good performance.

The Dimensity 800 processor and the Dimensity 900 processor, and the Kirin 670 processor, these three processors were the most used processors in mid-to-low-end mobile phones last year.

These processors have one thing in common, that is, the performance has reached a certain level, which can basically guarantee the basic use of users.

Moreover, these processors can run most games completely.

There will not be too much lag at all, and they can basically serve as mid-to-high-end processor chips from a few years ago.

However, the low-end processor released by Qualcomm last year only had a performance benchmark score of nearly 300,000 points.

Such a result can be said to have not even reached the tail of the MediaTek Dimensity processor, and naturally it has been complained about by a large number of consumers.

This has also caused Qualcomm to lose a lot of market share in the mid-to-low-end market last year.

This has also made Qualcomm pay more and more attention to the mid-to-low-end market. For this reason, Qualcomm has specially launched the latest low-end processor this year.

Moreover, in Qualcomm's view, this is the biggest upgrade of its own low-end processor.

Compared with the previous generation of low-end processors, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor has improved its performance by about 70%.

According to the current performance level, the performance of this processor can basically reach the level of the Dimensity 900 processor, and even surpass the opponent in terms of GPU.

If you look at the benchmark scores, the actual performance benchmark score of this processor should be around 470,000 points.

This is also Qualcomm's proudest entry-level processor, and Qualcomm also believes that this processor should be liked by major mobile phone manufacturers and applied to entry-level models of various companies.

Among the four mobile phone processors released by Qualcomm this year, the mid-to-low-end processors are the areas that Qualcomm values more.

After all, Qualcomm's mid-to-low-end market has now been completely taken away by Hua Xing Semiconductor and MediaTek, and there is not even a chance to turn over.

In order to truly regain its position in the true sense, Qualcomm had no choice but to release a very powerful mid-to-low-end processor to seize its original market.

In addition to these traditional manufacturers such as Qualcomm, MediaTek is still fully prepared to rise again.

MediaTek's development direction this time is to adopt TSMC's 4nm manufacturing process in Taiwan.

The level shown by MediaTek in recent years can be said to have impressed many consumers.

Mobile phones equipped with MediaTek processors have extremely high cost performance and have been recognized by the majority of consumers.

For next year's market, MediaTek is preparing five processor chips to seize more market share.

Of course, at the MediaTek New Technology Summit, MediaTek only announced four processor chips.

Some news about another processor chip has also been revealed, but it will not be truly announced until the second half of the year.

This time, MediaTek released the Dimensity 2000, Dimensity 1600, Dimensity 1500, and the Dimensity 920 processor, which focuses on the mid-to-low-end market.

Of course, there is also a processor that has not been announced to all mobile phone manufacturers. This processor is the Dimensity 2100 processor.

This processor will become MediaTek's truly flagship processor among the processors released in the second half of this year.

The Dimensity 2000 processor, as the flagship-level processor released by MediaTek in the first half of this year, also uses TSMC's 4nm manufacturing process in Taiwan.

Since TSMC in Taiwan does not produce processors for Huawei HiSilicon, TSMC in Taiwan now has very sufficient production capacity.

Now it has basically begun to meet the foundry production of Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and many other mobile processor platforms.