It is no surprise that the next highlight of Qualcomm’s offering will be Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus, although it is true that we are still not sure that it will be called that. And as you may remember, Qualcomm has changed the nomenclature of its SoC for high-end smartphones. Thus, with the previous nomenclature, the mid-life SoC update kept its name, but with the suffix Plus, which refers to certain improvements. And we think it will be similar with the new naming system, but we won’t know until we see it.

Be that as it may, we knew there wasn’t much left for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus show, and we told you a few weeks ago that the announcement was near, and we even predicted that it would take time between halfway and at the end of the same month. And now reality proves us right, because, as we can read in Wccftech, Qualcomm will introduce Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus as early as Friday this week, 20..

Like Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it is expected that this Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus will be manufactured by TSMC, on its four – nanometer platform, it should reconfigure its predecessor, meaning it will have a CPU consisting of eight cores: one ARM Cortex-X2 core, three ARM Cortex-A710 cores for 2 and four cores. cores ARM Cortex-A510. As this is an update, we assume that Qualcomm has managed to improve kernel performance.

Also we hope that Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus will be introduced together with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 G4, with the same performance as its older brother, but without 5G connectivity, a SoC that could target the middle class, where demand for 5G is not as common as high-end. Even so, it is a rather surprising proposal, because we cannot expect it to be a cheap integration. Will giving up a 5G connection make up the price difference? This is something we still have to see.

As is traditional in the announcements of the new Qualcomm SoCs, we can take it for granted that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus The announcement of the first smartphones or at least the manufacturers that will decide for this new SoC will also arrive. There are several rumors that suggest that the first models will be introduced in early June. And according to a recent tradition, we can expect Motorola to be the first manufacturer.