Smartphones powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G 5G chipset to launch in 2Q21

NEW DELHI: American chipmaker Qualcomm on Thursday launched its latest 7-series chipset, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G 5G platform, featuring Qualcomm Spectra 570 triple ISP and 6th generation Qualcomm AI Engine, and said commercial devices based on Snapdragon 780G will be available starting from the second quarter of 2021.

The latest octa-core 5G chipset features two Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.4GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz, with Adreno 652GPU for handling graphics.

Snapdragon 780G 5G is powered by the 6th generation Qualcomm AI Engine with the Qualcomm Hexagon 770 processor that is claimed to deliver up to 12 TOPs AI performance.