Inquisitive Universe: Good evening to you and yours. I have spent most of this week working on the list of the top 100 smartphone processors in the world (it's actually top 200 by the way) and I have some stuff to share. So in 2023, I had one of the best years ever, personally speaking, in blogging. I had over 3 million impressions and over one hundred thousand visitors. I also received a tidy sum of $113 from Google. The money aside, it was fulfilling because I was dominating every keyword I went after. I outranked MTN on their own Mifi. I outranked Qualcomm on their own Kryo core SoC and outranked Samsung and Sony for their own image sensors. However one of the articles that did fantastically well was the Top 100 smartphone processors. I was competing regularly with Nanoreviews for top spot on Google. I won some battles and lost others. So this top 100 smartphone SoCs is something that I actually take very seriously. Not just because it dragged people in but because it is a very important pet project of mine. Something that I've been doing since 2020. Then Google caught the AI revolution bug which led to disaster for most websites. I lost all my traffic and was effectively shadow banned. It was like they flipped a switch and my website vanished off the Internet. When that shit happened, I lost all desire to do anything tech related. I was depressed and mentally lost for awhile. I just wanted to stop doing anything tech related. However, I picked myself up, put a smile on my face, hid my sifia pains and soldiered on. Ola would regularly tell me about this SoC table and that I'd not updated it and I would just go and patch it small but the zeal to go and do it had died Well Google finally lifted the shadow ban and even though I don't have my old traffic back, I can still try and get new ones. Life goes on. Now on to the table. If you live in the third world like most of us do, it would appear that nothing has been happening at all. All we keep seeing is the same SoCs, year in and year out. The Helio G90 series is alive and well, and so is the Helio G80 series. Unisoc has decided to join the party and the Unisoc T7250 has become an instant fan favourite! How do I know this? Enter Unisoc T7250 on Google, and you'll find me in the top 5, outranking Unisoc's homepage 😂😂😂. So I know that a lot of people have been searching for this SoC, that's why I've been using it as a yardstick to measure budget SoCs these days. Qualcomm has abandoned this budget area. They don't want to have anything to do with it. Their last foray here was the Snapdragon 685 which is essentially an overclocked 680 which itself, was an over clocked Snapdragon 662/665. A lot has happened and has been happening in the SoC world but that gain hasn't been translated to us here. For instance, in 2023, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 on the Poco F5 was 7th place in the world. Today, it's 30th 😂😂😂 The whole Dimensity 8000, 7000 and even the 6000 series haven't become commonplace because...our tech overlords don't think we're good enough to use such "sophisticated" SoCs. So we will keep using 2020-era SoCs probably well into 2030. I mean even Oppo has gone to resurrect the Snapdragon 662 and are selling it for 330k and people are buying. There are so many exciting new processors that have been around for the last two years that haven't made it into mainstream phones. Itel P55 5G users know how good the Dimensity 6080 is. The Dimensity 7000 series are even better and the Dimensity 8000 are pushing into flagship killer territory. The Snapdragon 6 Gen series has been updated to the 6 Gen 4 and whilst it's mostly repetitive. They'll destroy most of the SoCs on sale here. The new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 can do over 700k on AnTuTu for a Midranger. Meanwhile the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 is comfortably touching 900k, the Dimensity 8450 is kissing 1.6 million and the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is doing 2.1 million. Meanwhile companies like Oppo want to sell a phone with 245k performance for 330k when the Itel P55 5G with almost 400k performance is going for 125k. But it is what is. I see a massive shift in ranking very soon. Most of your budget SoCs will be sliding into entry level obscurity and your lower mid-rangers will be entering the budget segment. The old entry-level SoCs are going to disappear. At least until Oppo brings back the Helio P35 or the Snapdragon 636 and tries to sell it for 500k and your useful idiots will tell people to buy because it's good. They'll go and buy and they'll cry blood. Meanwhile, the YouTubers and the smartphone OEMs will make billions. The shareholders will collect dividends on top of our collective ignorance. I'll get to updating that annoying HTML table over the weekend. Cheers and a happy weekend in advance.