It is still too early to know what the best Android phones that we will see in 2022 will be like, but what we do know is the processor that many of them will carry. Qualcomm, which manufactures the majority of mobile processors, has already advanced the details of what will be its best chip of the year, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
If the name sounds strange, it is because the company is going to use it as a starting point for a new image strategy. Snapdragon will become an independent brand and the nomenclature of the chips will be simplified compared to the current one. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, for example, will be the replacement for the current Snapdragon 888 and will be followed, supposedly in 2023, by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and so on. Trump Media & Technology: Republican Becomes Head Of Donald Trump's Social Network
The chip brings important changes both at the graphic level and in processing capacity. It will be built on Arm's new ARMV9 architecture. The chip will have 4 low-performance cores, three medium cores and a very powerful core, the Cortex X2, which will be used in intensive tasks and will be 20% more powerful (or 30% more efficient, depending on what is required in a given time) than the current Cortex X1 of the Snapdragon 888.
Qualcomm has also advanced that the graphics capabilities
will be much higher thanks to a new generation of Adreno GPUs, which will be
30% faster when performing the necessary calculations.
The most notable advancements, however, will be in the
dedicated photography process module, which has been redesigned to better
support future Android cameras. Qualcomm has baptized this new component as
Snapdragon Sight and will allow to operate with a greater volume of data from
the sensor.
It offers, for example, 18-bit color support instead of the 14 of the previous image processors. This number will be of help, above all, when creating high dynamic range (HDR) images, since it allows you to squeeze much more information from the various captures taken to generate the final image.
The module will also be able to process better night photos thanks to its ability to automatically combine and align up to 30 consecutive shots.
Finally, the chip will include a module specially designed to help with portrait mode in video up to 4K resolution, which means that manufacturers will have it easier to create video recording modes that compete with "cinematic mode" of the iPhone.
The new chips will incorporate a 5G-compatible modem, the X65. This modem was already sold as an additional component to manufacturers who required it in their phones, but now it will be integrated as standard in all chips.
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