Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 – Tablets and Phones – News

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After earlier rumors concerning the arrival of a brand new high-end Qualcomm chip, the producer pronounces the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. In line with Qualcomm, the primary smartphones with the brand new Qualcomm soc needs to be in shops on the finish of this 12 months.

Within the run-up to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the corporate has posted an announcement of the Snapdragon Gen 2 on-line and has now taken it offline once more. In the meantime, the full checklist of specs leaked main as much as the stream later right this moment.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the successor to the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and it is once more a 4nm soc. The prime core of the Kryo CPU will get an improve to Arm Cortex X3 core. Along with the prime core, the CPU has 4 efficiency cores and three effectivity cores. Qualcomm claims the processor is 10 % quicker than its predecessor and 30 % extra environment friendly. Qualcomm even claims that the Adreno GPU is 25 % quicker than its predecessor and 40 % extra environment friendly.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will get a brand new X70 5G modem and helps WiFi 7. The chip helps no less than the 5GHz and 6GHz band. Help for the two.4 GHz band isn’t talked about, however Qualcomm has not confirmed that help for this band can be dropped. The brand new soc helps LP-DDR5x working reminiscence as much as 4200MHz, which was LP-DDR5 as much as 3200MHz with the earlier technology. Similar to its predecessor, the chip does help a most of 16GB RAM.

For media, the specs typically stay the identical with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. What’s placing is that Qualcomm helps the AV1 codec for the primary time for video playback of 8K HDR pictures at 60 frames per second.

Qualcomm has introduced that Asus, Honor, Iqoo, Motorola Nubia, OnePlus, Oppo, Redmagic, Redmi, Sharp, Sony, Vivo, Xiaomi Xingj/Meizu and ZTE will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for his or her smartphones. Quite a lot of smartphone producers will launch their first machine outfitted with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 this 12 months. It has been rumored earlier than Vivo will quickly announce a brand new machine which is supplied with Qualcomm’s new soc.