Qualcomm announced that it will hold a new product launch of Snapdragon Mobile platform on March 17, without accident.The new product should be a new generation of Snapdragon 7 + mid-range chip code-named SM7475.It has been revealed that this will be the most powerful Snapdragon 7 series processor so far, and some manufacturers are already actively testing it, and the related products are expected to meet us in early April.

What kind of performance does this new product have, and whether it can save the mid-market for Qualcomm? In 2022, the only mid-end chip available to Qualcomm is Snapdragon 7Gen1, but considering that the performance of the new chip is not satisfactory, many mobile phone manufacturers have chosen Snapdragon 778G processor.

With the exposure of the new generation of Snapdragon 7 processors, I think the happiest is a group of mobile phone manufacturers, mid-range mobile phone chips finally have a new choice. It is reported that the new generation of Snapdragon 7 processor adopts TSMC 4nm process and has three cluster designs of 1x 3 + 4, among whichIt includes one Cortex-X2 macronucleus of 2.95GHz, three Cortex-A710 nuclei of 2.5GHz and four A510 energetic nuclei of 1.79GHz.

In addition, the Cortex-A710 core that supports 32-bit applications will continue to be used, with Adreno725580MHzGPUGiven the energy efficiency improvements brought about by TSMC's manufacturing process, the GPU performance of the new generation of Snapdragon 7 processors is to be expected.

At present,SM7475 has appeared on the running score website, with Geekbench 5 scoring 1232 points for single core and 4095 points for multi-core.At the same time, the running score of the processor is close to 1.03 million, which is very close to the 1.05 million score of Snapdragon 8+Gen1 downfrequency version. It can be seen that although the new Snapdragon 7 processor is located in the middle, its performance is quite powerful.

As we all know, in the past, Qualcomm focused most of its efforts on the high-end market, resulting in the mid-market being basically pinched by MediaTek, while with MediaTek's continuous impact on the high-end market and the gradual pressure on the mid-market, Qualcomm also began to adjust its strategy and finally used advanced architecture and technology for its mid-range chips.

At present, the mobile phone market is becoming more and more popular, and mobile phone manufacturers are focusing on the high-end mobile phone market, but according to the latest research report from IDC China, Apple still accounted for 70% of the domestic high-end market until the second quarter of last year.

In other words, in the domestic market, with the exception of Apple, the main models shipped by most mobile phone manufacturers are still medium-and low-end models. In other words, there is quite a market for mid-end chips, and it is also a must for chip manufacturers.

So which model will be the first to use the chip? According to the earlier exposure of the well-known blogger @ digital chat site, manufacturers such as OPPO, Glory and vivo are expected to plan to use this chip for new phones, and the first new phone will be available to us at the end of March at the earliest. You can expect it.

Finally, I would also like to say that as Qualcomm began to focus on the mid-market, the pressure also gave MediaTek!