In early autumn, Qualcomm will unveil its new flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 processor, which has been rumored for months with varying degrees of reliability, and today some of them have been confirmed by an authoritative insider at Digital Chat Station.
According to the source, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset with the internal label SM8850 will be manufactured in the factories of the Taiwanese contract semiconductor manufacturer TSMC using the third-generation 3nm N3P process technology.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will include Qualcomm’s own Orion computing cores and will receive a pair of super-cores and six high-performance ones, while the Adreno 840 controller will be responsible for graphics in the new product.
One of the most significant improvements concerns the cache memory, increased from 12 MB to an impressive 16 MB. This 33% increase will significantly improve the chip’s performance in managing demanding processes with lower latency and better overall system responsiveness.
As artificial intelligence plays an increasingly important role in smartphone capabilities, the new Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset has significantly improved neural processing performance.:
- The computing power of the NPU has grown from 80 TOPS to 100 TOPS.
- AI processing performance increased by 25%.
- Improved machine learning capabilities.
The second generation Snapdragon 8 Elite will support the improved SME1 instruction set and the newer SVE2 instruction set. As specified, SVE2 (Scalable Vector Extension 2) is an advanced instruction for working with 5G communications, computer vision applications, and multimedia data processing.
By the way, according to preliminary data, the first smartphones based on the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chip will be the top-end Xiaomi 16 and Xiaomi 16 Pro devices, which will later be joined by Xiaomi 16 Ultra and Redmi K90 Pro.