Bad news for 2022 Android flagships! Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 reportedly gets ‘very hot’ in extreme tests

In a tweet, the tipster suggests that the overheating problems in Qualcomm flagship chipsets have not gone away. He said the “extreme test of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is very hot” in Moto phones, referring to the recently launched Moto Edge X30. This basically means the chipset might have produced some extreme thermal throttling issues, raising concerns regarding the chipset’s heating issues.

Motorola Moto Edge X30 is the first smartphone to launch with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. The latest thermal throttling issues on the chipset also casts doubt on the future of other smartphones which are scheduled to launch with the processor over the next few months. Both Snapdragon 888 and its overclocked version, the Snapdragon 888+, are made on the 5nm fabrication process and run quite hot. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC is manufactured on a smaller 4nm node, which means that everything inside the chipset has shrunk a tiny bit more. Eventually, this doesn’t help with the cooling if we run high intensive tasks on it, including long hours of gaming or video recording, at least without optimisations.

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Thermal throttling issues have been a recurring theme in Android flagship smartphones in the recent past. It mainly occurs because Android OEMs are trying to keep their devices as sleek as possible, while cramming the latest processors and other parts of a smartphone. Although it’s still early days and nothing is conclusive as of yet, we hope that in the future both Qualcomm and Android manufacturers look upon these issues and provide better thermal management in all of their upcoming smartphones.