Compete with AMD and NVIDIA! Qualcomm launched game chip, supporting 5g, Wi Fi 6e

According to the data of newzoo, the scale of the global game market in 2019 was about US $152.1 billion, with a compound growth rate of 13.4% from 2015 to 2019. It is expected that the scale of the global game market will increase to US $196 billion by 2022. In terms of segmentation, the game market is mainly composed of five fields: smart phone games, tablet games, host games, PC web games and boxed games. Among them, smart phone games and host games are the main driving forces for the growth of the game market.

Figure source: prospective industry research institute

Such a huge market has attracted upstream device manufacturers such as AMD and NVIDIA to join. In December this year, Qualcomm launched the first generation Xiaolong G3X game platform at Xiaolong technology summit, which also officially entered the game market.

Xiaolong G3X game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip will be the first to be mounted on the thunder snake game console development kit. According to the introduction, the first generation Xiaolong G3X game platform will bring new game experience. First, in terms of visual effects, Qualcomm Adreno ™  GPU supports 144fps super smooth game experience, display refresh rate up to 120Hz, and supports 10 bit HDR with more than 1 billion colors. In terms of auditory effect, snapdragon G3X game platform adopts snapdragon sound ™ Xiaolong listening technology is optimized for sound quality, time delay and robustness, so that game players can listen and identify positions. Therefore, Qualcomm also launched wireless headphones that support snapdragon sound to improve the immersive game experience.

Qualcomm's 1st generation snapdragon G3X game platform

Before Qualcomm, chip manufacturer amd has been in the game market for a long time in NVIDIA. According to AMD's financial report data, the company achieved a revenue of US $4.313 billion in the third quarter of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 54%. Amd said that the revenue of server chips and game console chips in embedded, enterprise and semi customized fields was $1.9 billion. A 2020 data shows that AMD's ryzen chip PC game field share has reached 26.91%, and AMD has undoubtedly become the beneficiary of the game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip market.

Sony Playstation 5 and Microsoft series X game consoles have been equipped with AMD game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chips. Sony Playstation 5 is equipped with AMD Oberon chip, with a frequency of 2.23ghz and support 4K@120Hz And 8K video, which brings excellent game performance to Playstation 5. It is reported that steam deck will also use AMD's processor.

The game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip of NVIDIA, another chip manufacturing company, has been installed in Nintendo switch, which is also one of the popular game devices on the market. It is understood that over the past five years, Nintendo has sold more than 92 million switches, which has also expanded NVIDIA's share of the game market.

In the face of strong competitors, Qualcomm needs to build strong technical competitiveness to catch up. Therefore, Qualcomm gives its original technical strength to the game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip in transmission. Xiaolong G3X game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip supports 5g millimeter wave, sub-6ghz and Wi Fi 6e, which can bring stable network and low delay connection experience. Nintendo's switch has no cellular data connection function and uses WiFi connection.

In addition, Qualcomm said that the handheld game dedicated device built based on the first generation Xiaolong G3X game platform will have a balanced and easy to hold game handle, and the development kit will map the game controller supported by Aksys.

It can be seen that Qualcomm is fully prepared to enter the game market. Micah Knapp, senior director of product management of Qualcomm game platform, said in an interview that the development kit can let developers understand what game devices will look like in the future, so that they can design games targeted.

Facing the game market with strong demand, Qualcomm, as a big player of smart phone chips, obviously won't miss it. Qualcomm once said that the company will grow rapidly in the market of XR, Internet of things, autopilot and so on. In the moment of technology giant's layout of the "Yuan universe", the game, as an important form of early experience of the "Yuan universe", will usher in new demand in the market. Whether Qualcomm will enter the game chip' target='_blank' style='color:#ff0000;'>game chip market in advance to enter the "meta universe" has also become a new possibility.

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