Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is new name of Qualcomm's flagship platform

HAWAII, USA (Pocket-lint) - It's each alteration for Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon platform, with the institution announcing an all-new naming normal astatine its 2021 yearly Snapdragon Tech Summit.

Gone is the incremental numbering system, replaced by what's called Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 - not the rumoured Snapdragon 898 oregon 895 arsenic primitively thought - which volition proceed to make with Gen 2, Gen 3 and truthful distant implicit the coming years. 

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the successor to the Snapdragon 888 and 888+ flagships that launched end-of-2020 and successful the midst of 2021, doubling down connected that powerfulness with a bid of upgrades for the company's astir almighty mobile chipset yet.

We've covered the core details of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 successful our dedicated feature, but present are summary points of what this next-generation level volition bring to the party.

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: Everything you request to cognize astir the 2022 flagship mobile platform

Best-in-class 5G connectivity is assured, with some mmWave and Sub-6GHz enactment - thing its nearest rival, MediaTek, cannot connection successful its Dimensity 9000 SoC - on with enhanced artificial quality (AI) performance, amended gaming prospects, and the payment of little powerfulness depletion that comes portion and parcel of the platform's 4nm accumulation process.

Other Qualcomm platforms - 7, 6, and 4 - volition travel suit with the caller naming normal successful owed course, with antithetic colour emblems (gold for flagship) representing the platforms helping to much simply differentiate flagship from mid- and entry-level tiers. With shows specified arsenic CES and Mobile World Congress (MWC) incoming successful the archetypal months of 2022, we fishy that volition each beryllium enactment into question successful double-quick time.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 30 November 2021.