Qualcomm
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 mid-cycle upgrade announced on the CPU “, thanks to a 200 MHz peak processor (up to 3.2 GHz now) and a 10 percent faster GPU. The real shock is the claim of “30 percent improved energy efficiency” for CPUs and GPUs.
For the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus, Qualcomm is moving the chip from Samsung Foundry to TSMC, which is obviously where the power improvements come from. This is a major blow to Samsung’s 4 nm process versus TSMC’s 4 nm process, but compares to earlier reports of problems at Samsung Foundry.
Changing foundries as part of a mid-cycle upgrade is not normal and Qualcomm seems to have a bit of a rescue operation with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The chip has not performed very well in the real world, with the CPU regularly showing lower benchmark results. compared to the leading Snapdragon 888 from 2021.
Qualcomm doesn’t do as much for phones year after year and regularly lags behind Apple’s SoC team for years. Usually, the only reliable upgrade that Qualcomm can deliver is some measurable percentage of benchmark improvements. The GPU has managed to improve by 2022, but to see a reduction in CPU horsepower after Qualcomm said it would be 20 percent faster is a big disappointment. After a foundry change and increase in MHz of the processor, Qualcomm’s processor for 2022 may finally be faster than its counterpart from 2021.
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