NEW DELHI: Qualcomm finally unveiled its next-generation flagship chipset — Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. As promised the company has changed the naming scheme for the Snapdragon chipsets with the launch of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. At the time of the launch, the chipset major also said that this new and most-powerful processor will run on various high-end smartphones that are expected to launch starting this month.
Soon, after the launch of this new chipset, smartphone maker Oppo has confirmed that its flagship smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. Oppo said that it will launch its first smartphone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the first quarter of 2022. Oppo also said that it will continue to collaborate with Qualcomm Technologies in accelerating the development of 5G and exploring the future of smartphone innovations.
In an official statement, Oppo said, “OPPO maintains close ties with Qualcomm Technologies, and we have brought several 5G smartphones powered by flagship Snapdragon mobile platforms to the market this year, including the Find X3 series and Reno6 series. It is our pleasure to witness the launch of a new generation of Snapdragon 8 Mobile Platform. We believe it will bring immense improvements and powerful performance on the next generation of flagship smartphones.”
The new chipset from Qualcomm is developed using a 4nm process by Samsung based on Armv9 architecture. It comes with One Cortex-X2 prime core clocked at 3GHz, three Cortex-A710 performance cores clocked at 2.5GHz and four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores clocked at 1.8GHz. Qualcomm claims that this new processor offers a performance boost of up to 20 per cent and increases power efficiency by 30 per cent compared to the Snapdragon 888.
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