Last month, Qualcomm announced the upgraded version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, dubbed Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, which will be powering most of the flagship smartphones getting launched this year.

The company is also gearing up to launch the next-generation flagship processor towards the end of this year, which is likely to be called Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and details about the chipset have started surfacing online.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

As per the latest report from Digital Chat Station, it is claimed that the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, which apparently has the SM8550 Kailua model number and codename, will come with a completely different cluster configuration.

The chipset, which will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) based on its 4nm process, will reportedly have a 1+2+2+3 configuration instead of the usual 1+3+4 configuration.

The current Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 comes with one common big ARM core, three medium cores, and four low-power cores, a cluster design that is now being used by most chip makers for their high-end processors.

As per the report, the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will have one Makalu generation core, another cluster with two Makalu generation cores, followed by two Matterhorn cores, and three Klein R1 cores. ARM’s Matterhorn generation refers to its 2021 Cortex CPUs, whereas Makalu is meant for 2022 phones.

This means that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 could have one Cortex-X3 core, which has not been announced yet, two Cortex-A720 cores, two Cortex-A710 cores, and three older Cortex-A510 cores, likely to be coupled with the Adreno 740 GPU.

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