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Qualcomm Upgrades its Affordable-Flagship Snapdragon Chipset

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Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 Mobile Platform, a replacement for its existing Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chip for high-end (but not quite top-end) phones. The new Gen 4 chip offers a 65% improvement in AI performance, 30% faster graphics (GPU) renderings, and 27% better general compute (CPU) performance. The chip also brings several advanced features from the 8 series to the 7 series for the first time, including XPAN Wi-Fi audio technology and on-device stable diffusion generative AI for images. The new chip also improves low-light photography and supports both Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0. The first phones using Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 are expected to be announced later this month.

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