Mobile World Congress 2021 opened yesterday in Barcelona. Qualcomm unveiled an upgraded and even more powerful version of its flagship processor Snapdragon 888.
3 GHz clock speed
Snapdragon 888 Plus has increased clock speed, Kryo 680 CPU goes from 2.84 GHz to 2.995 GHz (which Qualcomm rounds to 3 GHz in marketing).
Qualcomm’s sixth generation AI engine is also being upgraded. Snapdragon 888 could handle 26 AI-TOPS (trillions or tera operations per second). 888 Plus masters 32 TOPS, which is about 20 percent more powerful.
Mid-year updates of the best products are not new to Qualcomm. They did almost the same thing when they came up with Plus models of Snapdragon 855 and 865. The company also had a kind of Plus-plus upgrade of 865 in early 2021 with the launch of Snapdragon 870.
Soon people will have it in their hands
It will probably not be long before the Snapdragon 888 Plus begins to appear in people’s hands. Qualcomm says that the first phones with the chip will be launched in the third quarter of 2021. Honor has already said that they will use the new chip in the upcoming Magic 3 flagship. Motorola, Vivo, Xiaomi and Asus are also planning phones with the Snapdragon 888 Plus.
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