We had fairly the busy week in tech! Summer time is really over, convey on the tech bulletins! MediaTek and Qualcomm each unveiled their next-gen cellular chipsets this week – the Dimensity 9500 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The Snapdragon brings a 20% enchancment in CPU efficiency with a 35% enchancment in effectivity. On the GPU aspect, count on 23% improved efficiency, 20% higher energy effectivity, and 25% improved Ray Tracing. The chipset has a 37% quicker Hexagon NPU and upgraded Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which collectively unlock agentic AI assistants for customized experiences.
We’re already seeing telephones powered by the brand new Qualcomm SoC, each introduced and upcoming – the Xiaomi 17 sequence, Honor’s Magic8 sequence, Realme’s GT 8 Professional, and so forth.
The Dimensity 9500 makes use of new era Arm CPU cores with an ‘All Huge Core’ design. It makes use of a single Arm C1-Extremely core clocked at 4.21GHz, three C1-Premium cores, and 4 C1-Professional cores for an octa-core design. Let’s speak numbers – single-core efficiency is up by 32%, multi-core is 17% higher. The extremely core is impressively 55% extra environment friendly at peak efficiency, whereas CPU effectivity is 30% higher than on the Dimensity 9400.
Graphics are 33% quicker and 42% extra environment friendly. The ninth-generation NPU 990 with Generative AI Engine 2.0 is 33% quicker.
The upcoming Oppo Discover X9 Professional and vivo X300 will undertake the Dimensity 9500 later this 12 months.
It’s touted because the “world’s quickest cellular system-on-a-chip” by Qualcomm.
Anticipate to see on Oppo and Vivo flagships on the finish of the 12 months.
Xiaomi unveiled three telephones within the 17 sequence, and two extra below the 15T moniker. That is not counting the Xiaomi Pad 8, Pad 8 Professional, and Pad Mini. All three Xiaomi 17 models use the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.
The Xiaomi 17 has a 6.3-inch 120Hz LTPO AMOLED show, a triple digicam – 23mm f/1.7, 60mm f/2.0, and 17mm f/2.4 – and a 7,000mAh battery with 100W charging. Each the Xiaomi 17 Professional and 17 Professional Max have a secondary 120Hz LTPO AMOLED show on the again, embedded into their respective digicam islands. The 17 Professional incorporates a 6.3-inch show up entrance and a 2.7-inch secondary show on the again. Its triple digicam system is a 23mm f/1.7, a 115mm f/3.0 telephoto, and a 17mm f/2.4 ultrawide. The Professional has a 6,300mAh battery. The 17 Professional Max has the identical digicam system, however a much bigger 6.9-inch foremost show, a much bigger 2.9-inch rear show, and the most important battery at 7,500mAh.
All three flagship telephones will launch in China first and are already accessible. Transferring on to the Xiaomi 15T and 15T Professional. Billed as flagship killer telephones, each T sequence gadgets have 6.83-inch AMOLED shows – the vanilla a 120Hz unit, the Professional a 144Hz one. The 15T has a Dimensity 8400 Extremely chip, whereas the Professional has a Dimensity 9400+ one. Each telephones have a 5,500mAh battery, however whereas the non-Professional expenses solely by a cable at 67W, the Professional provides 90W wired and 50W wi-fi choices.
Lastly, the 15T has a triple digicam with a 50MP 23mm wide-angle, a 50MP 46mm zoom, and a 12MP 15mm ultrawide. The 15T Professional packs a bigger sensor 50MP 23mm huge digicam, a 50MP 115mm zoom digicam, and the identical ultrawide.
The rear is dwelling to 2.7″ and a pair of.9″ secondary screens, respectively, and triple 50MP cameras – together with 5x periscopes.
It additionally brings 4 50MP cameras, as much as 16GB RAM and 100W charging.
The 14T duo from final 12 months had 6.67″ shows and 5,000mAh batteries. The brand new fashions improve that to five,500mAh. There are different enhancements too.
Vivo’s X300 sequence is approaching October 13 in China. There will probably be two telephones – the X300 and X300 Professional, each operating the brand new Dimensity 9500. Each telephones will use vivo’s newest Android 16-based OriginOS 6, which is approaching October 10. The X300 Professional could have a 24mm f/1.6 foremost digicam, and what seems to be the identical 85mm f/2.7 zoom digicam because the X200 Professional (and never the 85mm f/2.3 unit of the X200 Extremely).
The Oppo Discover X9 sequence, that includes the Discover X9 and Discover X9 Professional, is approaching October 16 with ColorOS 16 and the brand new Dimensity 9500 SoC. Anticipate big batteries and potent digicam {hardware}. However extra importantly, the sequence will launch globally, as confirmed by Oppo CPO Pete Lau!
vivo may also unveil a brand new pill, a pair of TWS earphones, and a smartwatch alongside the X300 sequence.
The photographs have been shot on the Changchun Air Present.
The Discover X9 Professional will home a big 7,500 mAh battery.
The iPhone 17 Professional and 17 Professional Max in Deep Blue and Cosmic Orange are most inclined.
It fared significantly better than the Professional fashions.
