Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 to land on midrange phones this month

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Qualcomm is gearing up to launch its newest midrange chipset later this month. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 is expected on devices from Xiaomi's Redmi to Realme. It won't be as powerful as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but it still gets upgraded from the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Qualcomm promises a 50% performance improvement over its predecessor, with speeds up to 2.91GHz.

GPU performance improves by two times and power efficiency by 13%. On-device AI is "integrated across the entire platform." It's expected to get twice the AI performance compared to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and 40% better per-watt performance. With AI Super Resolution, it should be capable of upscaling game visuals and photos from 1080p to 4K resolution.

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Samsung Galaxy S23 series will reportedly get a modified Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset

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With the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event happening on February 1, more rumours about the Samsung Galaxy S23 series continue to surface. The new Samsung flagship will reportedly run on a modified Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. Some people claim they've seen documentation refer to the processor as "Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy." The chip will supposedly come with a prime core clocked a bit higher than the standard variant (at 3.36GHz instead of the standard 3.19GHz).

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Qualcomm-powered laptops, smartphones expect better Adobe app performance

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Aside from introducing the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, Qualcomm also announced its new collaboration with Adobe. It plans to improve the performance and introduce exclusive features to laptops, smartphones, and tablets running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors. In 2023, we can also expect Adobe Acrobat and Fresco to run natively on Windows devices with ARM-based chipsets. Meanwhile, Photoshop and Lightroom are expected to get performance boosts as well.

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Expect better mobile photography from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

(Left) Original photo, (Right) Brilliant shades and colors shine through when using Real-time semantic segmentation to capture photos (Source: Qualcomm)

Aside from getting hardware-based ray tracing capabilities, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip promises to improve computational photography on upcoming devices. It's packing in what Qualcomm describes as its most advanced artificial intelligence AI engine driven by its upgraded Hexagon Processor. This combo enables phones to perform 4.35 times better when it comes to AI features. It's also the first Qualcomm mobile chip to support INT4, an AI precision format with a 60% performance-to-watt improvement for sustained AI inferencing.

What matters most when it comes to mobile photography is what Qualcomm labels as Snapdragon Sight. This feature will "define a new era of professional quality camera experiences" with its first Cognitive Image Signal Processor (ISP). It allows the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to automatically enhance photos and videos in real time through semantic segmentation. This process uses an AI neural network to make the camera contextually aware of faces, facial features, clothes, skies, hair, and more, so each detail gets customized professional image tuning in real time.

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