At the 2021 Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm officially released the new flagship Snapdragon 5G mobile platform, named Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is manufactured using a 4nm process and is Qualcomm’s first chip using ARM’s latest Armv9 architecture.
Moreover, this chip has a built-in eight-core Kryo CPU, which includes a 3.0GHz core based on Cortex-X2, three 2.5GHz high-performance cores based on Cortex-A710, and a 1.8GHz high-efficiency core based on Cortex-A510. Qualcomm said that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will improve processing performance by up to 20% and energy efficiency by up to 30% compared to the Snapdragon 888 chip.
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Compared with the Snapdragon 888 chip, the graphics and image rendering speed of the Adreno GPU built into the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will increase by 30%, and the energy efficiency will increase by 25%. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip also uses the Snapdragon X65 modem for the first time, which is compatible with all 5G network segments and supports a maximum transmission speed of up to 10Gbps.
In addition to performance improvements, the Snapdragon Sight Snapdragon imaging technology adopted by the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platforms includes the first 18-bit ISP specifically designed for smartphones and is also the first mobile platform that supports 8K HDR video shooting, and can shoot in the top HDR10+ format with more than 1 billion colors.
Qualcomm also announced at the press conference that it will cooperate with Sony Sensors to establish a joint laboratory to promote the development of mobile imaging. Qualcomm said that the joint experiment will provide optimization for equipment developed based on the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, and improve image quality in a short time.
Moreover, Qualcomm and Sony will also test the latest imaging technology heat at the same time, Sony Sensor cooperation, customized image sensors for the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, and improved imaging capabilities.
Qualcomm said that more than a dozen mobile phone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Sony, and Honor, have signed up to use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, and the first batch of phones equipped with the new chip is expected to be available before the end of this year.
