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If a smartphone was a delicious plate of food, the chipset would undoubtedly be the vegetables.

(Although that would do more harm than good to a phone’s internals.)

A graphic of the Dimensity 9400 chipset

Those are focused on photography, gaming and, of course, AI.

The classic way to understand how a chip’s improved is percentage increases from the last generation.

TheOnePlus 12, for example, features the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 from Qualcomm.

A graphic of the Dimensity 9400 chipset

We still have some waiting to do before this is all certain though.

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