Qualcomm to Unveil Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC in November: Report

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit on December 1 last year. Now, the company is reportedly set to announce the launch of the next-generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC two weeks earlier than it usually unveils its new SoCs.

The new information surfaced after the company mistakenly made the Snapdragon Summit event public on its website for a brief period, according to a report. The event was listed with the date of November 14-17.

SoC manufacturing company Qualcomm had inadvertently posted its Snapdragon Summit event listing on its website. The listing was later pulled, but not before GSMArena spotted dates for the upcoming event.

The screenshot of the list shared by the report shows that the Snapdragon Summit will be held from November 14 to 17 this year, two weeks before its usual time in December.

The company is expected to unveil the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC at the event. However, the report also states that these dates might be wrong since the company has yet to confirm the schedule for the event.

It’s also worth noting that it’s quite early for the company to announce the dates for the event. The report adds that Qualcomm usually announces the dates of its Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii as early as five months in advance.

The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC is said to have an unusual 1+2+2+3 CPU combo with one Cortex-X3 core, two Cortex-A720 cores, two A710 cores, and three A510 cores.

As a reminder, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC on December 1st. The SoC is said to have up to four times faster AI performance than the Snapdragon 888 SoC launched in 2020. It is said to have provided 30% faster graphics rendering and 25% higher power efficiency than the previous generation SoC .

June 29, 2022