The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 brings Wi-Fi 7, sticks with some 32-bit support

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Today, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, the company’s flagship chip that will be coming to many Android phones over the next few months. Besides the usual newer, better, hopefully faster cores, a big piece of news is the addition of Wi-Fi 7 support so you can get better home wireless—provided you invest in a new router.

Qualcomm has some claims for this new chip. The company says the CPU “improves performance up to 35 percent” and has “up to 40 percent more power efficiency.” The GPU supposedly “delivers up to 25 percent faster performance, with up

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