Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 as its next flagship smartphone processor. Qualcomm claims that it has crammed additional AI smarts onto the new platform in addition to making it more powerful and efficient than Gen 1 processors.
According to the business, the Snapdragon 8 will use the newest Qualcomm AI Engine and enhanced Hexagon CPU to provide “faster natural language processing with multi-language translation and superior AI photography functions.” According to Qualcomm, the processor’s architecture enhancements would allow up to 4.35 times the AI performance of Gen 1 CPUs. There will be support for an AI precision format dubbed Int4, which the firm claims will result in a 60% performance/watt boost over the previous-generation chipset for long-term AI inference. Meanwhile, the Sensing Hub will contain twin AI processors that will enable capabilities like bespoke wake phrases.
