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On July 25, at the Snapdragon Gaming Technology Awards held on the eve of 2024 ChinaJoy, Qualcomm introduced the highlights of this year's ChinaJoy and its progress in the field of mobile gaming innovation. At the same time, it was announced that the Oryon CPU will soon be available on the Snapdragon mobile platform. At the 2024 Snapdragon Technology Summit held on October 21, the new generation of Snapdragon 8Gen4 mobile platform will likely bring breakthrough technological innovations and performance indicators.

Snapdragon Pavilion shines at ChinaJoy, attracting millions of fans and visitors

Today, games have become an important factor in driving innovation in smartphone technology. As a leader in mobile communications and mobile computing, Qualcomm and the Snapdragon brand have been committed to driving innovation in mobile technology for many years, bringing excellent gaming experiences to smartphones, especially by introducing advanced end-game features to mobile devices through Snapdragon Elite Gaming.

As a frequent visitor to ChinaJoy, its carefully built Snapdragon Pavilion at ChinaJoy has been a "holy place" for fans to check in over the past few years. Tomorrow, the Snapdragon Theme Pavilion (E4) will also hold a grand opening ceremony to welcome many gamers and fans.

According to Hou Mingjuan, global vice president of Qualcomm, as of 2023, Qualcomm has carried out in-depth cooperation with more than 260 partners, presented more than 350 products and innovations in the Snapdragon Theme Pavilion, and attracted more than 1 million guests and visitors to visit on site.

"Over the years, Snapdragon has taken the lead in introducing many industry-leading technologies to mobile terminals. From supporting 120 frames to a breakthrough 240 frames, Snapdragon enables these top-level smooth experiences, making high-frame games gradually become a daily routine for mobile game players. On Snapdragon 8Gen2, hardware-based real-time ray tracing was brought to mobile terminals for the first time, providing players with lifelike picture quality and setting a new industry benchmark for mobile games. Bringing breakthrough technologies to everyone has always been the direction we and our customers are moving forward in," said Hou Mingjuan.

In addition, with its powerful performance and top-level experience, Snapdragon has also won the favor of many technology enthusiasts and gamers. Snapdragon Friends Club, an exclusive community created by Snapdragon for fans, has been established for three years and has welcomed more than 15 million fans around the world.

It is understood that in this year's Snapdragon Theme Pavilion, many mobile phone manufacturers will showcase their top flagship models equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform to bring players the ultimate mobile gaming experience. Players will also have the opportunity to experience the first batch of Windows 11 AI+ PCs equipped with the Snapdragon X series platform, and enjoy the latest terminal-side generative AI applications and smooth gaming experience. At the same time, the audience can also see more hardcore gaming equipment of different categories such as smart cars, XR devices, game handhelds, true wireless headphones, Wi-Fi7 routers, etc. equipped with Qualcomm and Snapdragon platforms, and experience the advanced digital entertainment experience of seamless interconnection and easy switching across terminals.

115 Snapdragon 8Gen3 flagship devices and 22 Snapdragon X Elite commercial devices are available

As Qualcomm's top mobile platform, Snapdragon 8Gen3 was a huge success after its release last year. With its innovative "CPU+GPU+NPU" heterogeneous computing architecture and industry-leading AI computing power, it has strongly supported the wave of terminal-generated AI and continuously brought terminal gaming experience to smartphones.

According to Alex Katuzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile, computing and XR business at Qualcomm, there are currently 115 flagship phones using the third-generation Snapdragon 8, making Snapdragon 8Gen3 the platform of choice for top mobile gaming experience.

To promote the popularity of mobile games, Qualcomm has also actively organized various competitions and created the world's largest comprehensive mobile e-sports event - Snapdragon E-sports Pioneer Tournament, which has attracted more than 3 million active players, about 1 million offline viewers, and more than 522 million online participants.

Katujan said that China is also one of the world's largest participating regions in the Snapdragon Esports Pioneer Tournament. The Snapdragon Esports Pioneer Tournament has gone through 8 seasons in China, held 18 live events in 6 cities, with about 400,000 offline spectators and 600 million online viewers.

In addition, Katujan also introduced the PC processor Snapdragon X Elite, which has taken the lead in enabling Windows 11 Al+ PCs, and 22 terminals are currently commercially available. Among them, the NPU processing performance is 4.5 times that of competing products, supports up to 22 hours of local video playback, and the CPU continuous multi-threaded performance leads by 58%.

Oryon CPU lands on mobile platforms Snapdragon 8Gen4Performance or surge

In addition to preheating the highlights of this ChinaJoy and introducing Qualcomm's current achievements in the field of mobile gaming, the most important news released at this Snapdragon Game Technology Awards was Qualcomm's announcement that it would bring its Oryon self-developed CPU architecture to mobile platforms.

Qualcomm's roadmap previously showed that it would gradually introduce the Oryon self-developed CPU architecture into the PC and mobile phone fields. The launch of the Snapdragon X Elite platform for PCs last year and the introduction of the Snapdragon mobile platform this year also meant that it was resolute and smooth in the evolution of its roadmap.

Last year, Qualcomm introduced Oryon to the PC platform, which has brought about a significant performance leap in the Snapdragon X Elite. In performance tests, it is far ahead of Apple and Intel's flagship products, which also makes this year's Snapdragon's latest generation of mobile platform Snapdragon 8Gen4 more anticipated. At the Snapdragon Summit held from October 21 to 23 this year, the specific information of Snapdragon 8Gen4 will be released in a centralized manner.

According to previous foreign media reports, the frequency of the self-developed super-core of Snapdragon 8Gen4 has exceeded 4GHz, and the single-core score of GeekBench6 is 2828 points, and the multi-core score is 10178 points. In addition, in addition to the self-developed Oryon core, Snapdragon 8Gen4 will use TSMC's second-generation 3nm process for the first time. This is also the first time that Android mobile phone chips have entered the 3nm era, and it is expected to become the most powerful mobile phone chip in the Android camp. Xiaomi 15 series, iQOO 13, Redmi K80 series, OnePlus 13, Realme GT7 Pro and other models are expected to be the first to be equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen4.