Quote from: Randy chan on May 14, 2023, 17:13:46Wow, now the smartphone future looks awesome and mind boggling, all in competition at it's best.
Media tek 9300 dimensity
Exynos 2400
Qualcomm snapdragon 8 gen 3
Apple A17 bionic
With those 4, that should take things to star war levels which will be great for consumers. With this, technologies will only be limited by engineers imagination. As for Google's upcoming tensor 3, that'll just leave them further behind the pack and prove they should have stuck with using Qualcomm's chips since tensor has been a step backwards despite all the hype.
In my view, Tensor is doing what it's supposed to. Since the Pixel 5, Google stopped competing head-to-head to Android Flagships. However, Snapdragon chips, even midrange, are expensive.
Tensor allows to check many boxes: It's cheaper than Qualcomm offerings, while offering flagship-like performance, allows to focus on the NPU as differentiator, while helps financially support Samsung LSI (second sources are important for a healthy market). Finally, a token of collaboration with Samsung when Google and Samsung reinvested in its partnership, with the result of the new iteration of Wear OS and this Samsung-made sillicon.