Qualcomm is setting up for the next generation chipset, named Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which will reach the floor in October equipped with an Oryon CPU.
This is being speculated by the announcement of Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm Don McGuire, present at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. He stated a few key details regarding Qualcomm’s future plans, including the stars from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is coming out next after the 8 Gen 3. It’ll be the top-of-the-line chip for phones from Qualcomm. Most new fancy phones from different companies will probably use this chip. If Samsung wants to put the 8 Gen 4 in their Galaxy S25 phones, they’ll likely get a special version from Qualcomm that’s even faster. This special chip will have a faster “clock speed” which means it can do more things at once.
It is revealed that the next-generation flagship SoC of the Californian chipmakers will be able to count on Oryon CPUs, customized by the brand. Plus, the brand will be officially announced during the Snapdragon Summit 2024, which will take place this year in October 2024.
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The transition from ARM cores to custom CPU cores should give a worthy competitive advantage to Qualcomm, which, in addition, should be capable of accessing the second-generation 3nm production process of TSMC, a fundamental step in trying to compete with Apple Silicon Chips.
The new flagship SoC for mobile devices will be officially presented in October 2024, during the classic appointment with the Snapdragon Summit. It was officially confirmed by the brand itself that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has already been the upholder of the first benchmarks, which have shown literally interesting results, even compared to the most recent Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which was found on most Android flagships in 2024, suggesting the use of Oryon cores.
It is expected that the CPU of the new SoC should boast a paradigm shift in the structure of the clusters, which leads to a definite saying goodbye to the efficiency cores and proposing exclusively “Prime” cores and performance cores. Here the indication is directly towards the 2+6 structure, along with clock frequency pushed up to 4 GHz for the two “Prime” cores. In addition to enhancements on the CPU front, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 should also be able to count on an improved neural processing unit (NPU) that is necessary to better compete in the AI race. However, it will be interesting to see whether Qualcomm will be able to compete with Apple.
