Qualcomm has today officially announced its next-generation flagship chipset named Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The newly released chip will be powering the upcoming flagship smartphones.
As the name indicates, it is a successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor released last year. This time, the launch of the chipset happened a few weeks earlier, which means that we will start seeing phones powered by the new chip by the end of this year.
Qualcomm has already revealed a list of manufacturers onboard to use the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, and now OnePlus has confirmed that it will be among the first to launch a device powered by this new chipset.
In a teaser poster, OnePlus has confirmed that the upcoming flagship named OnePlus 11 will be the first smartphone from the brand and among the first batch of devices to come powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Further, it adds that the company will also launch the first mobile optical tracking open platform.
Previously, an engineering model of the OnePlus 11 with the codename OnePlus 11-PBH110 was leaked, revealing that the phone features a 6.7-inch LTPO single punch-hole curved display. It has an optical fingerprint sensor and packs a 5,000mAh battery with support for 100W fast charging technology. In the camera department, the phone has a 50MP + 48MP + 32MP triple-camera setup on the back.
The newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 includes one prime core based on the ARM Cortex-X3 clocked at 3.2GHz, four performance cores at 2.8GHz, and three efficiency cores at 2.0GHz. The company says the CPU is 35 percent faster than the previous generation and 40 percent more power efficient.
It comes with the latest Qualcomm AI Engine and upgraded Hexagon processor, which the company claims can offer faster natural language processing with multi-language translation and advanced AI camera features. There’s support for real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing and will offer mobile-optimized support for the Unreal Engine 5 Metahumans Framework.
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