Qualcomm is anticipated to announce a brand new technology of its flagship Snapdragon chips later this yr, and Motorola is likely to be the primary to take benefit. This information comes by means of chatter on the Chinese language Weibo social community. It is from a certain factor. Larger OEMs like Samsung and Xiaomi might nonetheless beat Moto to the punch, however Motorola is in a powerful place after a number of quarters of development. Being first out the door with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 machine would solidify its return to the flagship area.
Digital Chat Station on Weibo posted lately that the Gen 2 chip is ready to debut after this yr’s Snapdragon Summit, which can most likely happen in November. Shortly after the DCS submit, an government from Lenovo (which owns Motorola) reposted the allegation and instructed that Moto could be the primary to disclose a Gen 2 cellphone. Nonetheless, the corporate releases some telephones solely in China—see the new Razr, for instance. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 first appeared within the Motorola Edge X30 for the Chinese language market, so this might not be unprecedented.
Motorola’s enterprise mannequin lately has been to launch a cellphone in each conceivable pricing area of interest. Whereas which may appear complicated or inefficient, it has been working. Moto’s market share has been climbing, even within the US the place it is notoriously troublesome to achieve traction in opposition to Samsung and Apple. Most of Moto’s current success have come within the funds section, nevertheless it nonetheless releases units within the Edge line the place we would possible see a Gen 2 chip.
The brand new Gen 2 rumors are imprecise—it is unclear if the speak about “being first” is a reference to launch or just announcement. It is potential Motorola might reveal a Gen 2 cellphone earlier than anybody else, however Xiaomi or Samsung might beat it to market. Samsung is rumored to be utilizing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in all variants of its Galaxy S23 household, dropping Exynos solely. Qualcomm would most likely want to order some chips for Samsung to snag that deal.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip has been on the coronary heart of telephones just like the Galaxy S22 and OnePlus 10 Professional. It was the primary Qualcomm chip to make use of Arm v9 CPU cores in addition to Samsung’s 4nm course of node know-how. In our expertise, the Gen 1 runs noticeably hotter in most telephones than final yr’s flagship Snapdragon 888. The newer “Plus” revision of the Gen 1 has carried out higher general. Rumors counsel the Gen 2 will proceed this development with even higher effectivity than the 888. Some reviews additionally declare it should have an uncommon four-island CPU configuration with just a few older A510 cores to run 32-bit apps.
