As 2021 draws to a close, talk inevitably turns to next-gen smartphones and their upcoming features. The beating heart of every handset is the system on a chip (SoC), packing in countless transistors that your phone’s apps, games, photographs, and more depend on. Big changes here can revolutionize your next smartphone experience, although industry maturity makes this more of a rarity these days.
Apple and Google have already announced their flagship smartphones that will last for the bulk of 2022, complete with in-house SoCs. We also know a fair bit about Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, which will power the majority of next year’s Android smartphones, including the Galaxy S22 series. MediaTek is also making a play for the high-end with its Dimensity 9000, leaving Samsung’s next-gen Exynos as the only remaining unknown at this point.