Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with ray tracing, AV1 codec, and more

The first commercial devices based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip are expected to launch by the end of this year

American chipmaker Qualcomm on Wednesday announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform for next-generation premium flagship smartphones. Global original equipment makers and smartphone brands, including ASUS Republic of Gamers, HONOR, iQOO, Motorola, Nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, REDMAGIC, Redmi, SHARP, Sony Corporation, Vivo, Xiaomi, MEIZU, and ZTE, will adopt this system-on-chip – said the company in a statement. The first commercial devices based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip are expected to launch by the end of this year.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has an octa-core architecture with one prime core (3.2GHz), four performance cores (2.8GHz each), and