Qualcomm Inc. launched its new top-tier smartphone chip aimed at premium-priced Android phones. The chip involves features like sharper photos and graphics than handsets using chips from rivals.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will have similar computing cores to rivals like MediaTek Inc., which recently announced a chip aimed at premium phones, Reuters reports.
Almost every other part of the chip is custom designed by Qualcomm, including those playing a role in the visual quality of photos and graphics-intensive apps like games.
Qualcomm has been crafting software that will let handset makers tap deeper into those parts of the chip.
Qualcomm said that over a dozen phone makers, including Xiaomi Corp., Sony Group Corp., and Honor, the brand spun out of Huawei Technologies Group Ltd., have signed up to use the new chips.
