Qualcomm to adopt new naming system for its flagship processors

American chip manufacturing giant, Qualcomm, has announced that Snapdragon Technology Summit will take place from November 30 to December 2, 2021. And the chip manufacturer will launch the new generation of flagship processors.

The #SnapdragonSummit is less than a month away! #TBT to announcing the @Snapdragon 865 #5G Mobile Platform at the 2019 Summit. It brought 2 gigapixel photography speeds to the Snapdragon family for the first time. pic.twitter.com/Y8EhUy2NU5

— Qualcomm (@Qualcomm) November 11, 2021

As per previous reports, the new chip is codenamed sm8450. There are also rumours that the new chip might be called Snapdragon 898. However, this is not the case.

As the famous Chinese tech blogger, Digital Chat Station (@DCS) claims that Qualcomm will be using a new naming system for its upcoming flagship processors. Instead of sd8450, the company will call it “Snapdragon 8 gen1”.

Here gen1 means Generation 1. If the reports are correct, then Qualcomm will abandon the old naming methods.

Also, a famous leakster, IceUniverse (@iceuniverse) said that Snapdragon competitor MediaTek will be launching its flagship processor Dimensity 2000 as Dimensity 9000.

Snapdragon 8 gen1 SoC spec

Samsung’s 4nm manufacturing technique will be used for the Snapdragon 898 SoC (Snapdragon 8 gen1). This chip will also use a 1+3+4 three-cluster architecture. Cortex X2 is the super-large core, with a primary frequency of 3.0GHz. In addition, the large core’s main frequency is 2.5GHz, while the mini core’s main frequency is 1.79GHz. The graphics card is an Adreno 730 with a baseband of X65 (downlink 10Gbps). Snapdragon 8 gen1 is touted to be 20% faster than Snapdragon 888 in terms of performance.

After testing, the processor’s single-core result is about 1300, while the multi-core is about 4000.

A previous leak also suggested that the Snapdragon 8 gen1 will be 20 times faster than the previous processor.

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