Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia will enable it to provide processors with its proprietary CPU cores. Along with unique cores, the forthcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will have a 2+6 CPU cluster—two speed cores and six energy-efficient cores. A new rumour on X from @jasonwill101 claims that the forthcoming chip, which aims to reach a frequency of 4.26GHz, may have its design updated by next month. It is purportedly intended to rival the Apple A18.
To put things in perspective, the Cortex-X4 super core of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can clock in at up to 3.3GHz, which is substantially less than the frequency Qualcomm plans to maintain with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The chip’s design was once stated to be completed by April, with a 4.00 GHz target frequency. It is claimed that Qualcomm was motivated to boost clock speed further by the Apple M4’s single-core score and performance core’s 4.4GHz clock speed.
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With the redesign, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could receive a boost in performance, especially when it comes to single-core based tasks.
TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process node is used in the Apple M4 and is also expected to be used to fabricate both the A18 series chips and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Looking at the latest Apple Silicon, it seems that the second generation 3nm node is efficient enough to sustain such high frequencies.
However, the one from Qualcomm does not support the ARMv9 instruction set and won’t have Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), which enables chips to perform complex tasks more efficiently. So we will need to see how Qualcomm manages the power efficiency this time. Some earlier reports claimed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be more power-hungry and will require smartphone manufacturers to use larger batteries.
Qualcomm is expected to unveil the chipset in the Snapdragon Summit which is likely to be held in October and the Xiaomi 15 series could be the first Oryon CPU powered Android flagship.
Notably, the company is also working on two ARM-based chips with the custom Oryon CPU cores for Windows PCs – the 12=-core Snapdragon X Elite and another 10-core Snapdragon X Plus.
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