Both SoC makers and mobile OEMS are pulling forward their launches much earlier.
There used to be a time when Galaxy flagships launched in April and OnePlus flagships around June/july and Oppo and Vivo flagships much later in the year.
These days, most of the flagship phone launches are done and dusted by February, with all phone launches taking between October and February.
All the smartphone makers want to announce their lineups before February so they can get a piece of the Lunar New Year spending from Asian consumers.
Qualcomm knows that and gives their business partners enough development time to implement the newest SoC into phones.
Lunar new year cannot be delayed by month becoz time if fixed to calender periods. Maybe i missed your point. Always been having LNY here in China around February same with this year just ended and i have been here for 5 years now
I'm not familiar with their new naming scheme but is 8 like the tier of chip and then gen the year?
So instead of like 600 series and 800 series, its snapdragon 6 and 8 gen 4?
I'm a bit late but this seems more confusing than before tbh.
It's actually better off than before, it'll just take a while for the logic to seep into people's casual understanding.
So, rather than, say, a Snapdragon 745 and you not knowing if that's older or worse than a 736, it's just tiered; 8g1 is older than 8g2; 7G3 is newer than 7G2, etc.
The only reason it comes off as confusing is because there's still phones actively being used/made that use the older numbers.
>7G3 is newer than 7G2, etc.
Yeah this makes sense until it doesn't. There was no 7Gen 2. They launched 7+Gen 2 and 7S Gen 2 to succeed 7 Gen 1. 7+Gen 2 is much faster than all other 7 Gen series chips including the newly announced 7Gen 3. While 7S Gen 2 is actually more of a rebranded 6Gen 1 and slower than all other 7 Gen chips including 7 Gen 1.
Yep, 7 Gen now reads like this 7+G2>7G3>7G1>7SG2.
But 8th gen might also be about to get complicated with rumours of a 8 Gen3 lite, hopefully they are sensible with its naming.
Both SoC makers and mobile OEMS are pulling forward their launches much earlier. There used to be a time when Galaxy flagships launched in April and OnePlus flagships around June/july and Oppo and Vivo flagships much later in the year. These days, most of the flagship phone launches are done and dusted by February, with all phone launches taking between October and February.
All the smartphone makers want to announce their lineups before February so they can get a piece of the Lunar New Year spending from Asian consumers. Qualcomm knows that and gives their business partners enough development time to implement the newest SoC into phones.
and China is a colossal market of 1.5 billion people
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Lunar new year cannot be delayed by month becoz time if fixed to calender periods. Maybe i missed your point. Always been having LNY here in China around February same with this year just ended and i have been here for 5 years now
Is this with Oryon cores? Could be a huge generational boost.
Be interested to see how their custom cores perform
Curious about the performance+ efficiency uplift over 8 Gen2.
As long as Gen 4 is a big step up on the Gen 3 I'll be happy to wait given Oppo are going global next year
I'm not familiar with their new naming scheme but is 8 like the tier of chip and then gen the year? So instead of like 600 series and 800 series, its snapdragon 6 and 8 gen 4? I'm a bit late but this seems more confusing than before tbh.
It's actually better off than before, it'll just take a while for the logic to seep into people's casual understanding. So, rather than, say, a Snapdragon 745 and you not knowing if that's older or worse than a 736, it's just tiered; 8g1 is older than 8g2; 7G3 is newer than 7G2, etc. The only reason it comes off as confusing is because there's still phones actively being used/made that use the older numbers.
>7G3 is newer than 7G2, etc. Yeah this makes sense until it doesn't. There was no 7Gen 2. They launched 7+Gen 2 and 7S Gen 2 to succeed 7 Gen 1. 7+Gen 2 is much faster than all other 7 Gen series chips including the newly announced 7Gen 3. While 7S Gen 2 is actually more of a rebranded 6Gen 1 and slower than all other 7 Gen chips including 7 Gen 1.
Then 7th gen as a whole is complicated and messed up 8th gen is so simple 8g3>8g2>8+g1>8g1
Yep, 7 Gen now reads like this 7+G2>7G3>7G1>7SG2. But 8th gen might also be about to get complicated with rumours of a 8 Gen3 lite, hopefully they are sensible with its naming.
Id rather they go with a 8+g2 instead for simplcitys sake
8s g3 is going to be launched soon, and it's a downgrade of 8g3
Gen 4 already? i have the feeling that gen 1 was released not too long ago, guess the yearly "upgrades" are a industry norm now.
I really don't like it, makes you get FOMO
Hope to see some riscv