Back in December 2021, Motorola became the first smartphone brand to launch a flagship device that featured Qualcomm’s latest and greatest mobile processor. Now, a new report suggests that the company will also be the first to feature another upcoming high end Qualcomm chip later this year as well.

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The news arrives from known tipster @数码闲聊站 on Weibo (a Chinese microblogging website). In the social media post, the tipster stated that the Lenovo owned brand could be the first to launch a smartphone powered by a new Snapdragon 8 series flagship processor, which has a model number of SM8475. He further added that this chipset will be mass produced sometime in the third quarter of this year. This device in question might be the Motorola Frontier that we had recently reported on, which is rumored to feature a 200 megapixel primary camera and a new Snapdragon flagship chipset.

Digital Chat Station also claimed that the SM8475 SoC has not hit commercial stages of production, so it is still uncertain regarding which brand will be the first to launch a smartphone that features this processor. Although, Motorola globally launching the Frontier model isn’t unlikely. For those unaware, Qualcomm has been reportedly working on a new Snapdragon 8 series chipset. This variant will be a slightly upgraded successor to the existing Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC and will be manufactured by TSMC on its 4nm process.

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We had previously reported on the chipmaker shifting some of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 production from Samsung to TSMC. This shift arrived since Samsung‘s yields have been insufficient for Qualcomm’s demands for the processor. As mass production stages of the new Snapdragon 8 series chip begins in the third quarter, we can expect a new flagship Motorola smartphone to launch in the second half of 2022.

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