Qualcomm Publishes, then Deletes, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Announcement

In a blog post initially published Tuesday and since taken down, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, its new marquee chipset offering. The new features of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, as described on the since altered blog, include: 1. Upgraded Hexagon DSP, with support for microtile inferencing and a bigger tensor accelerator (up to 4.35X increase in AI perf when compared to 8 Gen 1 in MobileBert)2. Support for INT4 with a 60% perf/watt improvement3. Sensing Hub with dual AI processors4. Upgraded GPU (~25% faster perf YoY)5. Upgraded CPU (~40% more power efficient YoY)6. Snapdragon X70 modem-RF system, w/ support for 5G DSDA7. FastConnect 7800 support, w/ WiFi 7 support Devices powered with the new chipset are expected to come out starting end of the year, Qualcomm said.

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