The next wave of flagship Android devices will run on Qualcomm’s latest ARM processor, the just-revealed Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Before you know it, 2022 will be drawing to a close, and that means a new wave of smartphones will be looming on the horizon. Many of the next-gen flagship devices due to arrive next year will likely run on Qualcomm’s latest mobile platform, the just-revealed Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. This chip is the predictably named follow-up to last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, with the usual array of performance and efficiency enhancements. Qualcomm is also changing up the CPU core configuration this time around to maintain support for older apps while giving new ones some extra oomph.The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is still an octa-core chip, but the arrangement of the CPU islands has changed. While the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 featured a prime core, three performance cores, and four efficiency cores (a pretty typical layout), the Gen 2 moves to a 1+2+2+3 setup. There’s still one prime core on the menu, a Cortex X3 clocked as high as 3.2GHz for improved single-threaded performance. The low-power cores are the same Cortex-A510 we saw in last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but there are three instead of four now.The four performance cores are split into pairs—two of them are Cortex-A710s and two are Cortex-A715s.
