This Tuesday (15), during the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced the release of its latest processor for premium Android phones: Snapdragon 8 Generation 2🇧🇷 As rumors have already stated, The 4 nanometer chipset will be manufactured by TSMC, not Samsung🇧🇷
Focusing on Artificial Intelligence, the chip will allow mobile device manufacturers to create devices with more advanced features and, for example, improve battery life. According to Qualcomm, the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 40% more energy efficiency and has a CPU up to 35% faster than the previous model.
HE ray tracing Hardware accelerated is an anticipated innovation for mobile gamers, and it has finally arrived in Qualcomm’s SoC.
sound and camera
One thing worth noting was the expansion of Aways Sensing Camera, a feature that was announced last year but now lets you use your mobile’s camera to read a QR Code even when it’s turned off.
The new chipset will also allow real-time enhancements to photos and videos, thanks to a neural system that helps the device’s camera understand specific details of each image to offer the ideal tuning such as facial features, hair, landscape. etc.
Samsung’s ISOCELL HP3 sensor, which lets you take 200-megapixel photos, is the first sensor optimized for Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Additionally, this is the first Snapdragon to include a codec that lets you shoot 8K HDR video at 60 frames per second.
Music lovers will be able to enjoy spatial sound with streaming support lossless 48 kHz and 48 ms latency on Bluetooth – which is good news for mobile gamers.
connection
The new Snapdragon also brings Wi-Fi 7 with Multi-Link HighBand Simultaneous (HBS), an application that takes advantage of connection streams in the 5 GHz and/or 6 GHz bands simultaneously.
According to Qualcomm, in regions where 6 GHz spectrum is not yet available, HBS Multi-Link combines 160 + 80 MHz channels to increase speeds by up to 50% over Wi-Fi 6/6E.
Additionally, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the first device to allow simultaneous use of two 5G SIMs in a smartphone.
First smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 still in 2022
By the end of 2022, manufacturers such as ASUS ROG, HONOR, Motorola, OnePlus, OPPO, Redmi and Xiaomi are expected to launch their first mobile phones with the new Snapdragon. We already know that Samsung will use the chipset in its next premium smartphone, the Galaxy S23.
* The journalist went to Mauiu at the invitation of Qualcomm.
Source: Tec Mundo
