In December 2021, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship SoC was released. In addition to announcing that the Snapdragon brand is independent of Qualcomm, the news that Xiaomi and Moto are competing for the first model is also a major attraction in the industry. At present, there is news that in the second half of 2022, the upgraded version of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 will be released, and the biggest highlight is the use of TSMC 4nm process.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which has been applied to a number of intelligent flagship fuselages, is built using Samsung 4nm process, and the CPU/GPU has been significantly improved compared to the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 888 Plus, and the running score has also exceeded 1 million. Performance improvement is important, but the outside world is more concerned about the heat problem of snapdragon 8 Gen 1 under the Samsung process.
According to the heat generated by the four Snapdragon-based 8 Gen1 chip smartphones flowing out of the network when charging, the parameter of about 40 degrees is still acceptable. But everyone is still more concerned about the progress of the next generation of Snapdragon mobile platforms.
According to the digital blogger, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 model created by TSMC is SM8475, and Xiaomi is polishing. At present, the SM8475 will not be unveiled until the second half of the year, and may be named Snapdragon 8 Plus.
Judging from the exposed news, the upgraded version of Snapdragon 8 based on TSMC's 4nm process is not as good as everyone imagines (heat and power consumption), compared with Samsung's 4nm process, TSMC's version of Snapdragon 8's improvement is relatively limited, can only be said to be a routine upgrade, a slight increase. But perhaps this is a marketing strategy of Qualcomm, after all, the Snapdragon 8Gen 1 chip model has just begun to go on sale.