Qualcomm has been announcing several new products at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit and after unveiling the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip for smartphones and Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 for gaming devices, the company has now taken the wraps off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 computing platform.
As the name implies, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is a successor of the 8cx Gen 2 model that was launched last year. It is built using the 5nm process, a first for a chip made for Windows devices. The company has also promised an 85 percent improvement in CPU performance and 60 percent faster GPU performance.
For connectivity, the chipset offers support for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55, X62, and the X65 5G modems. To recap, the Snapdragon X65 offers peak download speeds of up to 10Gbps, Snapdragon X55 delivers up to 7.5Gbps speeds while the Snapdragon X62 offers up to 4.4Gbps speed.
It packs Qualcomm’s Spectra ISP, which promises better autofocus, auto-white balance, and auto-exposure for videoconferencing. It supports a single camera up to 24MP, along with up to 4 concurrent cameras, and also has support for 4K HDR video capture at 30fps, slow motion 720p video at 480fps.
The chip now supports UFS 3.1 storage which offers faster read and write speeds. There’s also Qualcomm Voice Suite, which has Qualcomm Noise and Echo Cancellation technology to cancel out unwanted background sounds.
The company is claiming that the chip supports “multi-day battery life” but it has not provided any more details related to this. Devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 are expected to launch in the first half of 2022.
Qualcomm is also working on its next-generation chips for Windows PC that are expected to be powering devices from 2023. Those chips are designed by Nuvia, a company that was acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4 billion earlier this year. The next-generation Nuvia designed chips launching in 2023 are aimed to compete against Apple’s M-series chips.
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