We had rather the hectic week in tech! Summer season is really over, cause the tech statements! MediaTek and Qualcomm both revealed their next-gen mobile chipsets today – the Dimensity 9500 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The Snapdragon brings a 20% enhancement in CPU efficiency with a 35% enhancement in performance. On the GPU side, anticipate 23% enhanced efficiency, 20% much better power performance, and 25% enhanced Ray Tracing. The chipset has a 37% faster Hexagon NPU and updated Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which together open agentic AI assistants for individualized experiences.
We’re currently seeing phones powered by the brand-new Qualcomm SoC, both revealed and upcoming – the Xiaomi 17 series, Honor’s Magic8 series, Realme’s GT 8 Pro, and so on.
The Dimensity 9500 utilizes brand-new generation Arm CPU cores with an ‘All Big Core’ style. It utilizes a single Arm C1-Ultra core clocked at 4.21 GHz, 3 C1-Premium cores, and 4 C1-Pro cores for an octa-core style. Let’s talk numbers – single-core efficiency is up by 32%, multi-core is 17% much better. The ultra core is remarkably 55% more effective at peak efficiency, while CPU performance is 30% much better than on the Dimensity 9400.
Graphics are 33% faster and 42% more effective. The ninth-generation NPU 990 with Generative AI Engine 2.0 is 33% faster.
The upcoming Oppo Find X9 Pro and vivo X300 will embrace the Dimensity 9500 later on this year.
Xiaomi revealed 3 phones in the 17 series, and 2 more under the 15T name. That’s not counting the Xiaomi Pad 8, Pad 8 Pro, and Pad Mini. All 3 Xiaomi 17 systems utilize the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.
The Xiaomi 17 has a 6.3-inch 120Hz LTPO AMOLED screen, a triple video camera – 23mm f/1.7, 60mm f/2.0, and 17mm f/2.4 – and a 7,000 mAh battery with 100W charging. Both the Xiaomi 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max have a secondary 120Hz LTPO AMOLED screen on the back, ingrained into their particular electronic camera islands. The 17 Pro includes a 6.3-inch display screen in advance and a 2.7-inch secondary screen at the back. Its triple cam system is a 23mm f/1.7, a 115mm f/3.0 telephoto, and a 17mm f/2.4 ultrawide. The Pro has a 6,300 mAh battery. The 17 Pro Max has the very same cam system, however a larger 6.9-inch primary screen, a larger 2.9-inch back screen, and the most significant battery at 7,500 mAh.
All 3 flagship phones will introduce in China initially and are currently readily available. Proceeding to the Xiaomi 15T and 15T Pro. Billed as flagship killer phones, both T series gadgets have 6.83-inch AMOLED screens – the vanilla a 120Hz system, the Pro a 144Hz one. The 15T has a Dimensity 8400 Ultra chip, while the Pro has a Dimensity 9400+ one. Both phones have a 5,500 mAh battery, however while the non-Pro charges just through a cable television at 67W, the Pro includes 90W wired and 50W cordless choices.
The 15T has a triple electronic camera with a 50MP 23mm wide-angle, a 50MP 46mm zoom, and a 12MP 15mm ultrawide. The 15T Pro loads a bigger sensing unit 50MP 23mm broad electronic camera, a 50MP 115mm zoom video camera, and the very same ultrawide.
Vivo’s X300 series is beginning October 13 in China. There will be 2 phones – the X300 and X300 Pro, both running the brand-new Dimensity 9500. Both phones will utilize vivo’s most current Android 16-based OriginOS 6, which is beginning October 10. The X300 Pro will have a 24mm f/1.6 primary video camera, and what seems the very same 85mm f/2.7 zoom cam as the X200 Pro (and not the 85mm f/2.3 system of the X200 Ultra).
The Oppo Find X9 series, including the Find X9 and Find X9 Pro, is beginning October 16 with ColorOS 16 and the brand-new Dimensity 9500 SoC. Anticipate big batteries and powerful cam hardware. More notably, the series will introduce internationally, as verified by Oppo CPO Pete Lau!