Day 1 of the Snapdragon Tech Summit kicked off with the introduction of the latest smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones – the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
As expected, it delivers improvements in performance and efficiency for camera, connectivity, gaming, sound, and security. But the biggest punch comes from the use of artificial intelligence in just about every area. The company went so far as to call it “purpose built for AI.”
Qualcomm uses all of the Snapdragon SoC’s processing elements for AI processing and calls the combination of these processing elements the “AI engine.” Among the enhancements incorporated into the AI engine was a dedicated power plane and a doubling of the tensor processing cores within the Hexagon processor. The result is a 4.35x improvement in performance and an equally impressive 60% improvement in performance per watt efficiency.
With the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Qualcomm is also introducing the Hexagon Direct Link – a physical link between the Hexagon processor and the other AI processing cores for fast, real-time processing. According to the company, this will enable the first cognitive processing by the image signal processor in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Qualcomm also added a second AI processor to the sensor hub for real-time sensor processing, increasing the sensor processing by 2x. The additional sensor processing combined with applications allows for new capabilities, such as processing by the camera even when the phone is in sleep mode. As a result, the phone could still be used to detect activity and/or be used for other applications, such as scanning QR codes while in sleep mode.
The Snapdragon 8 gen 2 will also feature another first, dedicated AI processing in the modem, an area that is long overdue to be enhanced by AI. This feature improves throughput, coverage, and range, especially when operating at the edge of a cellular network. The modem also includes 4x carrier aggregation for up to 10Gbps and simultaneous dual-SIM support while remaining backwards compatible with 4G.
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