09:51AM EST – With day one in all Qualcomm’s annual summit asserting its new Snapdragon 888 smartphone processor, at present is the day the place we get all these shiny technical particulars. Stick to us right here at AnandTech from 10am ET to get the knowledge as it’s introduced by means of our Dwell Weblog!
09:57AM EST – We’re a couple of minutes from beginning
09:58AM EST – Yesterday Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 888, and X60 modem, however did not go into any of the small print we love. That was left for at present’s keynote presentation
10:00AM EST – Right here we go
10:00AM EST – Don McGuire on the digital stage
10:01AM EST – Snapdragon units the benchmark for the related age
10:01AM EST – 888 = Eight Eighty Eight
10:01AM EST – That jacket seems to be odd
10:01AM EST – Ziad Asghar for the Technical Deep Dive
10:01AM EST – Main improve in each respect
10:01AM EST – Fruits of a few years of labor, hundreds of engineers
10:02AM EST – Enhancing the expertise of expertise within the dwelling to make the smartphone surpass all of them
10:03AM EST – Smartphones outweigh TVs with 4K/8K HDR
10:03AM EST – Wonderful digicam expertise
10:03AM EST – Talk with folks whereas watching Netflix
10:03AM EST – Smartphones are extra versatile than a separate digicam
10:03AM EST – AI augmentation
10:03AM EST – a number of feed recording concurrently
10:03AM EST – Measurement, weight, AI results
10:04AM EST – Fiber gateways
10:04AM EST – Extra bandwidth in a smartphone
10:04AM EST – Fewer dropped calls on 5G
10:04AM EST – Now gaming consoles – the way forward for gaming is cellular
10:04AM EST – Be on the transfer and play anyplace
10:04AM EST – ‘gaming is a multiplayer exercise’ – I dispute that. I actually do
10:05AM EST – Gaming could be very totally different on the smartphone
10:05AM EST – One machine does all of it, powered by S888
10:06AM EST – Imaging and best-in-class digicam expertise is usually #1 requirement for a smartphone
10:06AM EST – 1.4 trillion smartphone photos taken in 2020
10:06AM EST – Most smartphone players play 6+ hours per week
10:07AM EST – Cellular gaming is a social norm
10:07AM EST – XR is taking gaming to a brand new stage
10:07AM EST – New digital worlds
10:07AM EST – AI additionally augments smartphones
10:07AM EST – working behind the scenes
10:07AM EST – Voice recognition, navigation help, suggestion for gross sales engines
10:08AM EST – System stage optimizations from SoC to modem and Wi-Fi and antenna
10:08AM EST – Qualcomm can connect with any 5G community on the planet
10:08AM EST – QuickCharge, Sonic Fingerprint
10:09AM EST – (all elements of the Snapdragon package deal providing – not each vendor will purchase the whole lot in that providing)
10:09AM EST – Audio applied sciences
10:09AM EST – Working with cellular and audio manufacturers
10:09AM EST – Qualcomm Aqstic Audio
10:10AM EST – type issue innovation for add-ons
10:10AM EST – headphones, watches, headsets
10:10AM EST – AR/VR/XR glasses
10:11AM EST – Most innovative expertise on S888
10:11AM EST – Connectivity
10:11AM EST – Built-in 5G RF X60 Modem
10:12AM EST – third Gen mmWave + sub6
10:12AM EST – Peak 7.5 Gbps
10:12AM EST – 3 Gbps Add
10:12AM EST – 5G service aggregation throughout FDD,TDD
10:12AM EST – Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 – Wi-Fi 6/6E with 6 GHz
10:13AM EST – 3.6 Gbps on Wi-Fi
10:13AM EST – 4K QAM, 160 MHz, 4-stream DBS
10:13AM EST – Quickest and most constant connections
10:13AM EST – Bluetooth 5.2 with twin antenna assist
10:13AM EST – Digicam
10:13AM EST – Qualcomm powers probably the most cameras on the planet, measured by photographs taken
10:13AM EST – Tripling down on the way forward for images
10:14AM EST – Seize three totally different digicam streams without delay
10:14AM EST – Spectra 580
10:14AM EST – Help Staggered HDR sensors. Computational HDR assist
10:14AM EST – 2.7 gigapixel/sec with Spectra 580
10:14AM EST – +35% gen over gen
10:14AM EST – GPU
10:15AM EST – Adreno GPU
10:15AM EST – Shipped over 2.5 billion Adreno GPUs
10:15AM EST – New breed of gaming smartphones
10:15AM EST – Most effective graphics IP within the business, and ever
10:15AM EST – Greatest YoY improve ever +35%
10:15AM EST – 20% extra energy environment friendly
10:15AM EST – Show enhancements
10:16AM EST – New {hardware} in show pipeline equivalent to sub-pixel rendering
10:16AM EST – Constructed on sustained efficiency
10:16AM EST – Opponents drop off in a short time
10:16AM EST – Working with cellular gaming business
10:16AM EST – Now AI
10:17AM EST – Qualcomm AI allows 1.5 billion units
10:17AM EST – AI has outpaced all others in processing calls for
10:17AM EST – New Hexagon processor ground-up redesign
10:17AM EST – Scalar, Vector, Tensor all now fused
10:17AM EST – 16x Shared Reminiscence in comparison with prior product
10:17AM EST – 3x perf/watt, 2x tensor
10:18AM EST – Enabling new use circumstances on machine
10:18AM EST – Now Qualcomm sensor hub
10:18AM EST – 2nd gen this time
10:18AM EST – added devoted AI processor
10:18AM EST – Low energy AI circumstances
10:18AM EST – Can work on knowledge streams with out firing up Hexagon
10:18AM EST – CPU
10:18AM EST – Kryo 680
10:19AM EST – +25% perf, +25% energy environment friendly
10:19AM EST – Cortex X1
10:19AM EST – 1 x 2.84GHz X1 + 3 x 2.4GHz A78 + 4x 1.8 GHz A55
10:19AM EST – CPU constructed for sustained efficiency, not simply benchmark runs
10:20AM EST – sixth Gen AI engine
10:20AM EST – Mixed CPU+GPU+AI = 26 TOPs
10:20AM EST – Redesigned instruments
10:20AM EST – Qualcomm AI Engine Direct
10:21AM EST – Now Safety
10:21AM EST – New experiences constructed on safe foundations
10:21AM EST – New applied sciences
10:21AM EST – Snapdragon with hypervisor assist
10:21AM EST – Multi-OS assist
10:21AM EST – app isolation
10:22AM EST – Profile assist based mostly on hypervisor
10:22AM EST – Work profile, private profile and so on however safe
10:22AM EST – Multi-user as effectively
10:22AM EST – Apps may be remoted inside a profile
10:23AM EST – Works with Qualcomm Wi-fi Edge Companies. Safe hardware-based attestation
10:24AM EST – Remotely activate chipset and app options
10:24AM EST – Builders can use these companies of their apps at present
10:24AM EST – Enabling safe distant administration
10:24AM EST – Additionally safe images
10:25AM EST – New safety normal to inform customers {that a} photograph is real with out edit
10:25AM EST – Crypto seal
10:26AM EST – Snapdragon is world first CIA compliant digicam system
10:27AM EST – Deeper into the digicam subsystem now
10:27AM EST – PJ to the digital stage
10:28AM EST – Skilled high quality photograph and video
10:28AM EST – Taking a number of photographs and utilizing the perfect elements of every
10:28AM EST – Enabling smartphone innovation
10:29AM EST – Utilizing smaller course of node and transistor price range to allow 3x ISP models
10:31AM EST – Most flagship smartphones have 3+ cameras with totally different lenses
10:31AM EST – Triple concurrency allows three cameras to seize 4K HDR on the similar time
10:31AM EST – Operating all three cameras signifies that now not need to guess if a person goes up or right down to totally different cameras
10:32AM EST – 2×64 MP at 60 Hz + 1x28MP at 30 Hz
10:32AM EST – or 120 photographs per second at 12 MP
10:33AM EST – Mixed with AI
10:33AM EST – Enhanced low gentle
10:33AM EST – 0.1 lux
10:34AM EST – ISP designed for the picture sensors due out 2021
10:35AM EST – Staggered HDR sensors popping out in 2021
10:35AM EST – Separate quick, medium, lengthy photographs without delay in HDR
10:35AM EST – Computational HDR requires greater than 10-bit precision
10:36AM EST – Now not any tradeoff for enabling HDR
10:36AM EST – 10-bit HEIF assist
10:37AM EST – All seize modes supported
10:37AM EST – enabling video chat
10:38AM EST – (however we nonetheless want an honest native webcam app that makes use of these options)
10:39AM EST – S888 will allow 4K at 120 Hz playback
10:39AM EST – (earlier generations may file, however not playback)
10:40AM EST – First Qualcomm Spectra with tenth Gen 3A with AI
10:40AM EST – Neural Web focus and publicity
10:41AM EST – designed in digital actuality
10:41AM EST – Shifting the item in focus as you are taking a video
10:42AM EST – Apps can allow monitor and zoom mechanically utilizing AI
10:43AM EST – AI educated on totally different classes for numerous filters
10:43AM EST – Now to gaming on S888
10:43AM EST – Macey Davis
10:44AM EST – Chief in gaming innovation
10:44AM EST – Snapdragon Elite Gaming
10:44AM EST – Ultrasmooth gaming
10:44AM EST – 144 FPS, 10-bit HDR
10:45AM EST – Updateable GPU driver on a per-game foundation
10:45AM EST – Ahead Rendering
10:45AM EST – Recreation Colour Plus
10:47AM EST – ‘Desktop Stage Capabilities’
10:47AM EST – Elite Gaming in AR/VR
10:47AM EST – This video reveals folks sitting round in public taking part in video games. (A) Do folks meet pals simply to play on their telephones (B) Assembly folks?
10:48AM EST – Cellular is half of all gaming income worldwide
10:48AM EST – Extra AAA video games on cellular than ever earlier than
10:48AM EST – Cellular gaming has exploded regardless of the worldwide state of affairs
10:49AM EST – Cellular gaming requires predicting efficiency of smartphone silicon years upfront
10:50AM EST – 2.6 billion cellular players worldwide, totally on Android
10:50AM EST – Console-based cloud gaming
10:50AM EST – enabled by 5G
10:50AM EST – Xbox Recreation Go Final on Snapdragon S888
10:51AM EST – Dolby Atmos
10:51AM EST – Decrease latency audio with Qualcomm Audio
10:51AM EST – Decrease contact latency
10:52AM EST – Professional players require faster reactions
10:52AM EST – Sponsor of PUBG world champs
10:54AM EST – New Qualcomm Recreation Fast Contact
10:54AM EST – Vertical sync and contact submission leading to delayed frames
10:54AM EST – This avoids that problem
10:55AM EST – Contact to show improved by 20%
10:55AM EST – Variable Price Shading
10:56AM EST – Decreasing workloads and bettering body charges / resolutions
10:56AM EST – or lowers energy consumption for longer recreation play
10:56AM EST – VRS as much as 2×2
10:56AM EST – 40% discount in pixel shading on common
10:56AM EST – with out sacrificing visible constancy
10:58AM EST – Additionally permits for parity with desktop and console options
10:59AM EST – Now onto extra element on AI
11:00AM EST – Qualcomm is in use in lots of the default apps on smartphones at present, and social media apps
11:00AM EST – Developsers are on the coronary heart of AI
11:01AM EST – Qualcomm AI Innovation Problem in China
11:01AM EST – Neural Processing SDK
11:03AM EST – utilizing AI to sense the world round
11:03AM EST – Hexagon 780 has been rearchitected
11:03AM EST – New fused design
11:04AM EST – New fused sensor reduces reminiscence latency between segments
11:04AM EST – Perf/watt as much as 3x
11:05AM EST – GPU now helps 4-input blended precision dot product
11:05AM EST – wave matrix multiplication for FP16/FP32
11:05AM EST – Utilizing AI to take away parts from video
11:06AM EST – (makes use of third social gathering apps)
11:06AM EST – reside background elimination in 4K30 video
11:07AM EST – Fascinating numbers, does not state what batch measurement although
11:07AM EST – batch 1 is latency targeted, batch 64+ is throughput targeted
11:07AM EST – Sensing hub is 5x extra highly effective
11:08AM EST – Lower than 1 mA present
11:08AM EST – TensorMicro framework for sensor hub
11:08AM EST – Already can offload 38% of the Hey Google algorithm to the sensor hub
11:09AM EST – Sensor hub can function when remainder of the {hardware} is principally off
11:09AM EST – Hub can now take knowledge from all sensors concurrently with out muxing
11:09AM EST – e.g. matching ring quantity to atmosphere
11:09AM EST – Social media filter options by detecting atmosphere
11:10AM EST – This particular person is clearly on a raid
11:10AM EST – Utilizing AI to detect what kind of moisturizer you need to use after the bathe
11:11AM EST – (so utilizing a cellphone within the toilet, that is going to go down effectively)
11:11AM EST – sixth Gen On-device SDK
11:12AM EST – Help for brand spanking new fashions, and MS W10 use circumstances powered by snapdragon
11:12AM EST – Hexagon NN direct
11:13AM EST – New Qualcomm AI Engine Direct gives APIs for full SoC entry for AI fashions
11:13AM EST – CPU/GPU/Hexagon multi functional
11:13AM EST – Appropriate with S865
11:13AM EST – Centered on modularity and extensibility
11:14AM EST – Consumer outlined operators in OpenCL into the SDK
11:15AM EST – tvm with now assist Hexagon constructed with python
11:15AM EST – Sharing contributions with the open supply neighborhood
11:15AM EST – AI mannequin effectivity toolkit
11:15AM EST – New assist for decrease quantization
11:16AM EST – Permits maximising energy whereas sustaining accuracy
11:16AM EST – Working instantly with Snapchat
11:18AM EST – S888. 5nm
11:19AM EST – Kryo 680 + Adreno 660 + Hexagon 780
11:19AM EST – X60 modem, 5G sub-6 and mmWave
11:22AM EST – S888 improves your experiences, and creates new ones
11:22AM EST – Redefining the premium tier
11:23AM EST – That is a wrap. Subsequent yr’s occasion is in Hawaii