As we told you at the beginning of the week, Qualcomm today introduced the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, a long-awaited review of the current generation of Qualcomm’s leading integrated system, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. And we could already be on track, mainly because it’s been common in society for years, which is actually the main unknown it had to do with its name. Many of us have also bet on a continuous line in the hope that it will be Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+, but technology has decided to change in this regard, by placing + to the left of the generation, instead of to the right.

After this doubt, which does not have a major effect on the chip, but has caused a certain curiosity in us, it is time to talk about integration itself, ie what we find in it and what we can expect from it. And again, Qualcomm doesn’t surprise us (I mean the approach they’ve chosen) because we’re in the same eight-core Kiro CPU with the Cortex-X2 performance cap. Of course, if in 8 Gen 1 his top speed was 3 gigahertz, for Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, it rises to 3.2 GHz.

The speed is also improved by the remaining cores of Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. If in the previous model there were speeds 3, 2.5 and 1.8 GHzin Snapdragon 8+ Gen were promoted 3.2, 2.75 and 2 GHz. And the SoC isn’t the only component that has seen performance improvements, as it’s the same with its GPU, which, according to Qualcomm, has increased performance by 10% compared to its implementation in the previous integrated version.

These improvements do not represent a big leap in performance, but they do focus, although they do not explicitly mention it, on the weaknesses we found in its predecessor. relatively high energy consumption and, as a logical consequence, the emergence of higher temperatures in encapsulation, with all the problems that result. With the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, Qualcomm stands out by stating that if the jump was 10%, the efficiency improvement is quantified at a much more remarkable 30%.

Another novelty is the leap in connectivity accept Bluetooth 5.3. At this point, let’s remember that Bluetooth 5.2 is still the latest generation for many, but the truth is that in 2022, the first smartphones began to arrive, still few compatible with this review. Now, with its inclusion in Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, we can expect it to start multiplying in the high-end during the second half of this year.

And speaking of data, Qualcomm announced the first smartphones with Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 will arrive during the third quarter of this year, ie from July. I admit that I was a little surprised, because some of us expected it to be in June and maybe from Motorola. Nevertheless, we can expect an announcement in this regard during the month of June.

In Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which, as we have mentioned, retains much of its predecessor, there is no more news, although it is true that this time Qualcomm chose TSMC for its production, even though its predecessor was a work by Samsung. A) Yes, we are not talking about a new generation, but about optimizing an existing chipwhen half of the generation’s life cycle is fulfilled.

And although of course no specific models were mentioned, Qualcomm announced that Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 can be found in devices from Asus ROG, Black Shark, HONOR, iQOO, Lenovo, Motorola, Nubia, OnePlus, Oppo, OSOM, realme, Red Magic, Redmi , vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE.

Further information: Qualcomm