https://wccftech.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-2-better-power-efficiency/ > Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will likely arrive at the end of the year, and while that is a long wait, one tipster already hints that the SoC shows promising results, at least in the efficiency department. This improvement could be attributed to the San Diego chip company completely switching foundries. > Initial tests rumored for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 are showing positive results, according to Ice Universe. According to him, Qualcomm’s next-generation SoC is showing better efficiency performance than even the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, which is the first Qualcomm chipset to shift to TSMC’s 4nm architecture. As expected, the efficiency of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is also better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which was mass produced on Samsung’s 4nm technology and notorious for performance and overheating issues.