Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip launched to power all 2022 flagships

Qualcomm has officially launched its next-generation flagship chipset for mobile phones called Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. With the announcement of this SoC, the chipmaker made radical changes in its product naming strategy as previous variants named triple-digit number which starts with 8.

Coming to its specifications, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip comes with Qualcomm’s latest and powerful technologies such as Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine, which includes:

• AIE GPU: Qualcomm Adreno GPU
• Always-on AI: Qualcomm Sensing Hub
• AIE CPU: Qualcomm Kryo CPU
• Hexagon Processor: Fused AI Accelerator architecture, Qualcomm Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX), Qualcomm Hexagon Scalar Accelerator, Qualcomm Hexagon Tensor Accelerator

In terms of CPU, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor features CPU clock speed up to 3.0GHz, Qualcomm Kryo CPU cores, and 64-bit architecture. In addition, it is equipped with Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System which brings peak download speed up to 10 Gbps.

• Cellular Modem-RF Specs: 8 carriers (mmWave), 2×2 MIMO (mmWave), 4×4 MIMO (Sub-6)

Heading to the camera capabilities, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip has a Qualcomm Spectra image signal processor, Triple 18-bit ISPs, and Hardware accelerator for computer vision (CV-ISP). You can check the supported camera configurations below.

• Triple Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 36 MP
• Dual Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 64+36 MP
• Single Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 108 MP
• Single Camera: Up to 200 MP

Camera Features

Qualcomm’s brand new mobile phone platform features futuristic camera features support including Multi-frame Noise Reduction (MFNR), AI-based face detection, auto-focus, and auto-exposure, Locally Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering, and Low light photography architecture.

• Slow Motion Video Capture: 720p @ 960 FPS
• Video Capture Formats: Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG
• Video Capture Features: 4K Video Capture @ 120 FPS, 8K video capture at 30fps, Bokeh Engine for Video Capture, Video super resolution
• Video Capture: 8K HDR Video Capture + 64 MP Photo Capture

• You can know more about Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship SoC at Qualcomm’s official website.

1st Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phone coming

According to the information, the first smartphone with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will be launched later this year, which will be Xiaomi 12 series. Besides, Samsung will also use this new chipset for its upcoming Galaxy S22 series, which is rumored to debut in mid-February.

These phone makers will use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip:

• Black Shark
• Honor
• iQOO
• Motorola
• Nubia
• OnePlus
• OPPO
• Realme
• Redmi
• SHARP
• Sony Corporation
• Vivo
• Xiaomi
• ZTE