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Qualcomm has stripped the wraps off its lower-level Snapdragon 480 5G, the successor to the 460 used in phones like the Nokia 3.4.
The 480 is the first 4-series system on a chip (SoC) that supports 5G, is built in 8-nanometer lithography, supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ and 120Hz displays, and has 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 support. The X51 modem 5G supports 5G millimeter wave and sub-6GHz signals, autonomous and non-autonomous modes, as well as time division duplex, frequency division duplex, and dynamic spectrum sharing.
Using the Spectra 345 image processor, the 480 also brings triple signal processing to the Series 4, allowing you to capture still images or video from three cameras simultaneously.
After bringing 5G to its flagship 8 series in late 2018, Qualcomm said that the new chip would allow more than 3.5 billion people to access a 5G phone.
Compared to the 460, Qualcomm said the chip more than doubles the performance of the Kryo 460 CPU and Adreno 619 GPU, and AI workloads improve performance by 70%.
The first devices to use the 480 will be announced in “early 2021,” Qualcomm said, as Oppo, Vivo and HMB Global that make Nokia phones said they were all going to use the new chip.
At the end of 2020, Qualcomm released its new flagship Snapdragon 888 chip, and shortly thereafter followed with its new mid-tier 678 chip.
