If you're planning to get a new Android phone like Samsung's Galaxy S21 in 2021, you'll be hearing a lot about the Snapdragon 888 Qualcomm's latest mobile platform was briefly previewed today (December 1) at the company's annual technology summit, where it was revealed that it will be in most major Android devices coming next year [Alex Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager of mobile, compute, and infrastructure at Qualcomm, said, "This is the most advanced platform ever, and the technology built into it is just amazing The technology built into it is just amazing

More details on the Snapdragon 888 will be announced in the coming days, but Qualcomm has already released some details on the new mobile system-on-chip

In addition to 5G, Qualcomm has announced three key components of the Snapdragon 888 system-on-chip: artificial intelligence, mobile gaming, and photography The new chipset features Qualcomm's 6th generation AI engine, powered by the new Hexagon engine, which should improve both performance and power efficiency when using AI features According to Qualcomm, the new Hexagon engine is capable of 26 teraflops per second

For everyday use, the improved AI engine will allow the camera to focus faster when taking pictures, so you are less likely to miss a once-in-a-lifetime photo The improved AI will also allow the phone to better understand your behavior throughout the day and predict in advance which apps and features you will need to access

When it comes to gaming, Qualcomm says the new chips will improve the performance of the Adreno GPU by 35% Equally important, the Snapdragon 888 features the latest version of Snapdragon Elite Gaming, which aims to bring a console-style gaming experience to mobile mobile gaming with the Snapdragon 888 will offer ultra-smooth gaming, HDR-quality graphics, and other desktop-class features are suggested to be improved

The Snapdragon 888 should also enhance mobile photography with an updated Spectra ISP in the chipset This version of Spectra ISP is faster, capturing photos and video at 27 gigapixels per second This is the equivalent of taking a burst of 120 photos at 12 MP resolution According to Qualcomm, this is a 35% improvement over the ISP in the Snapdragon 865, the system-on-chip in this year's phones

Qualcomm will not announce specific phones with the new processor, but phone makers such as Motorola, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and ZTE have said that their upcoming phones will feature the Snapdragon 888

Although Samsung is not included on this list, the handset maker is usually one of the first to add Qualcomm's flagship chipset to its flagship phones, at least in the United States

Qualcomm's announcement today of the Snapdragon 888 is just a teaser of the mobile processing platform's capabilities and what will be in next year's phones The chipmaker will reveal more information about the chipset tomorrow (December 2) during the second day of its technology summit, and we will report what we hear then