Many of the top-end Android phones of 2022 are going to come running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but we’re already hearing rumors of a possible Gen 2 update next year – and improved video codec support could be one of the major upgrades. As per sources speaking to Protocol (opens in new tab), Qualcomm is planning to add support for the open-video AV1 codec in a processor due to be released at the end of this year, which sounds very much like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to us. You may not have heard much about AV1 up to this point, but it’s a way of storing video that offers better compression than current standards – and that of course means it can be delivered over the internet more quickly.
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