Chinese chips are pressing Meixin, multi-cluster design has become the object of imitation, and technology leads the trend
Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8G2 processor has launched a series of advertising campaigns to try to make up for its weakness in a single core that is not comparable to Taiwan's MediaTek, while emulating MediaTek's multi-core architecture and achieving excellent results in the testing process.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8G2 does not make up for the advantages of the MediaTek Tenguiz 9200, the reason is that both processors use TSMC's 3 nm processor, so the performance of both processors is the same.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8G2 will inevitably use a 1+2+2+3 4-core architecture, that is, by reducing power consumption A510 and adding a new performance A715, Snapdragon 8G2 has 3 1 million cores and 4 A715 cores, surpassing MediaTek Tianyu 9200 and MediaTek in multi-core testing.
In fact, whether it is Qualcomm or MediaTek, they all rely on a "assembled" technology, using Arm's universal core, so their performance is much worse than Apple's A16, and the only thing that can reverse the decline is multi-core capabilities.
However, Qualcomm is not without hole cards, Snapdragon 8G2 is equipped with Adreno740 processor, which is currently the most powerful graphics processor in mobile phone processors, even surpassing McDonnell Douglas, Apple and other manufacturers, and Qualcomm's GPU is the only shortcoming, especially in the current era when mobile phones are dominated by **, games, photography and other imaging functions, it occupies an absolute leading position.
Qualcomm's four cluster technology is not the first to be proposed, the concept of multiple clusters was originally proposed by MediaTek in Taiwan, China, at that time MediaTek's performance on mobile phones was not as good as Apple and Qualcomm, so MediaTek began a multi-core strategy for mobile phones.
MediaTek has launched two-core, quad-core, and eight-core mobile**, and at the same time as launching the ten-core, MediaTek has also launched three series of mobile** chips, of which the first ten-core HillioX20 is the world's first three-threaded three processors. The HELIOX20 is a dual-core A72 + quad-core A53, quad-core A53 + 4-core, A53 is A53, A72 is the best, quad-core is A53, this breakthrough design has caused a lot of controversy. The Heliox20 uses the high frequency of the A53+4 core of the A72+4 core + the frequency of the 4 core, the frequency of the A53 is higher, the performance of the A72 is better, and the performance of the A53 of the octa-core is better.
However, this bunch of cores is a failure, because there are too many cores, the power consumption is too large, so the A72 in the X20 as a high-performance core, there is no way to increase its frequency too much, so that the performance of a single core has decreased, in contrast, Apple uses a dual-core architecture, focusing on single-core performance, and the results have been proven to be right. The performance of multi-core can only be regarded in practice, so some people sarcastically ridiculed MediaTek for being limited to seven cores, and as a result, the mobile phone was also beaten back to eight cores.
Now Qualcomm is back in the layout of multiple product lines, probably trying to learn something from MediaTek, the X3 may launch a high-performance single-core processor that reduces energy consumption by limiting the frequency of the A715 core, in this way, MediaTek may still be able to do it, but it is not as good as Apple.
The reason why Qualcomm made such a choice is entirely because Qualcomm's two recently launched Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8G1 have heat dissipation problems, which allowed MediaTek to enter the field of high-end mobile phones. By 2020, Qualcomm will surpass MediaTek and lose its dominant position in the field of mobile phone chips.
If Qualcomm wants to stabilize its market share, it must adopt a more active chip design strategy, in order to recover its advantage in high-end mobile phone chips, and then further strive to achieve a larger market share in mobile phone chips, even if it is ridiculed for copying MediaTek, it will not matter.