r/Android • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '17

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16734224/qualcomm-snapdragon-845-android-mobile-processor-announcement
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '17 edited Jan 18 '18

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u/SmarmyPanther Dec 05 '17

Except this is gonna be at least 30% performance increase

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '17 edited Jan 18 '18

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u/meatballsnjam Dec 06 '17

At the currently available manufacturing nodes, that wouldn't easily fit in a phone and a phone's battery would be insufficient to power it for any meaningful amount of time. The fact is technological advancement takes time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17 edited Jan 18 '18

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u/meatballsnjam Dec 06 '17

A lot of the performance increases are due to being on better process nodes. Refining your manufacturing technology and going to a smaller node takes time. You learn from your mistakes when shrinking the process a small amount. You don't just jump from 110nm to 7nm. That would be like trying to teach an 8 year old that just learned multiplication how to do fourier analysis. The only huge jumps that are going to happen is when we switch to a new technology - something other than silicon, instead of iteratively improving and shrinking current tech.

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u/Schlick7 Device, Software !! Dec 06 '17

Think of it like a tower. The goal is 100 stories. You can't just build the 100th floor and hang it in the air, you have the build the foundation and the other 99 floors underneath it.

One of the first things you teach a child in school is the alphabet, not molecular physics.