No security is not the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ upgrade “Six-Pulse Sword”: Android’s vulnerable link is made up -Technology changes the future

A few days ago, on the 2022 Snapdragon Night, Qualcomm released a new generation of flagship mobile platform Snapdragon 8+ in the Chinese market. The overall architecture remains unchanged, the manufacturing process is changed from Samsung 4nm to TSMC 4nm, and the CPU and GPU frequency are increased at the same time. , which brings significant performance improvement and energy efficiency optimization, and the upcoming Android flagship will be completely new from the inside out.

What changes does the Snapdragon 8+ bring?The highlights that fans pay most attention to have changed

The upgrade strategy from Snapdragon to Snapdragon+ has long been accustomed to. Snapdragon meets the needs of the flagship in the first half of the year, and the improved version of the Snapdragon+ series is the flagship of Android in the second half of the year.

However, from this year’s Snapdragon 8 to Snapdragon 8+, the content of the upgrade is much more important. There are many firsts in Qualcomm’s history, such as the first time to switch to a different process, and the degree of optimization is rare before.

For Snapdragon fans, the two most concerned places – performance and energy efficiency have been significantly improved.

The Snapdragon 8+ CPU is still composed of a single super-large core X2, three large-core A710s, and four small-core A510s. The frequency has been increased from 3.0GHz, 2.5GHz, and 1.8GHz to 3.2GHz, 2.8GHz, and 2.0GHz, respectively. The performance is therefore An increase of about 10%.

For gaming, the Adreno 730 GPU cores are also clocked up by 10%.

Of course, the change in energy efficiency is a big surprise.The overall power consumption of the Snapdragon 8+ SoC is reduced by about 15%, of which the CPU and GPU can reduce the power consumption by up to 30% in different scenarios.

How has the specific experience changed? The official released the actual measured data in “Genshin Impact”. In the heavy load scene, the 810p image quality continued to run for 60 minutes, the average frame rate was 60.2FPS, and the whole process was stable, there was no obvious frame drop, and the actual power consumption was lower than that of the Snapdragon 8. A full 30%.

Another popular mobile game “Honor of Kings” also has similar effects. The energy efficiency is increased by about 30%. The game is not only full frame, but also the frame rate is stable throughout the whole process, without abnormal fluctuations, and the battery life is also improved in all directions.

Snapdragon 8+ will not only run points: “Six Meridians Excalibur” unique skills will comprehensively improve the Android experience

We all know that Android flagship users like to run a point when they have nothing to do. In this regard, the performance improvement of Snapdragon 8+ has been convincing, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Android is the strongest.

However, the running score is not the whole of the Snapdragon 8+. The unique skill that the Snapdragon family is good at is the “Six Meridians Sword”, and the six major abilities are comprehensive.

Snapdragon 8 and the latest Snapdragon 8+ bring the best experience in all six technologies,Includes Snapdragon Connect connectivity, Snapdragon Sound audio, Snapdragon Elite Gaming, Snapdragon Sight imaging, Snapdragon Secure, Snapdragon Smart.

These six technologies are not illusory at all, but the real experience of users in daily use, such as the Snapdragon Connect connection experience, the 5G baseband integrated by the Snapdragon 8+ achieves an ultra-high speed of 10Gbps, and the latest Wi- Fi 6/6E wireless, also supports 5G dual card, you don’t have to worry about network interruption when you call when playing games.

As for the experience of Snapdragon’s images and games, it is the daily life of many people. The experience of playing the king at 120 frames is very smooth, and the ability to take pictures and videos also depends on the support of Snapdragon, especially the current rapid development of computational photography. The powerful computing power and the assistance of Snapdragon AI make the Android flagship camera ability to occupy the first place in DXO for a long time.

Among the six unique skills of the Snapdragon 8+, the one that you probably don’t understand the most is the security aspect of Snapdragon Secure. You think it has nothing to do with daily use. This is the most easily overlooked place, but its importance far exceeds everyone’s. In this era of increasing cyber threats and violations of private information, Qualcomm has strengthened the security of the Snapdragon 8+, which is expected to fundamentally make up for the vulnerability of Android.

Snapdragon security foundation: Android security issues are constantly being fixed

Today’s smart phones are not limited to making calls, sending text messages and surfing the Internet. They have almost become an essential life and work assistant for everyone. They have to deal with various affairs anytime, anywhere, even if it is confidential work information. Being targeted by saboteurs, various security issues such as theft, fraud, and extortion occur frequently.

This problem is especially serious in the open Android ecosystem, where Google and mobile phone manufacturers are constantly improving security.Now the Snapdragon platform also regards security as one of the six technical pillars, improving the security of mobile phones from the chip level.

In the past, the Snapdragon platform often launched some new security technologies, such as the problem of flashing the phone after losing or being stolen. Qualcomm introduced the SafeSwitch function on the Snapdragon 810 in 2015, which can remotely lock the phone. And erase the data on the mobile phone to ensure that personal information is not leaked and abused.

With the development of fingerprint recognition, iris recognition and other technologies, the protection of biometric information has also become the key. Qualcomm brought the function of secure CPU for the first time on the Snapdragon 845, with an independent kernel, flash memory and power management unit to store fingerprints, bank Confidential thoughts such as cards are isolated from other systems and prevented from being attacked, which is also the basis for the large-scale popularization of mobile payments.

Each generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship platform will have new technologies to improve security standards. The latest Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 8+ platforms are the culmination of previous generations of security technologies, not only supporting Qualcomm Secure Processing Unit SPU and Qualcomm Trustworthy The execution environment is also compliant with the Android Ready SE standard, bringing consumers a secure flagship experience.

Simply put, the Android Ready SE standard is a security alliance established by Google and a number of companies last year to launch an open-source SE security interface and program that enables smart devices such as mobile phones to be used for digital keys, car keys, e-passports, digital currency etc.

Supporting this standard means that platforms such as the Snapdragon 8+ can implement various security applications more widely.The Snapdragon 8+ mobile phone can be used as a mobile ID without worrying about whether it is safe to do so, because a set of security standards and protocols ensure the security of Android phones.

It can be said that with the continuous upgrading of Snapdragon security technology, the missing lesson in security and privacy protection of today’s Android phones is being filled. Sex is also reassuring. You don’t have to worry about the security of your mobile phone in various occasions such as paying for shopping on the street, receiving work assignments during business trips, and so on.

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