Qualcomm's next flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, will reportedly bring a significant change to its smartphone SoC line-up by using specially designed Orion processor cores. The new cores are rumoured to boost the performance of the new chip by leaps and bounds.
Leading mobile chip maker Qualcomm is preparing to release its new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor. According to a reputed Digital Chat Station insider, the new chip promises impressive GPU performance.
In light of ongoing tensions between the US and China over national security and technological dominance, the US Department of Commerce has announced further tightening of export restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei.
According to the latest rumours, Qualcomm's next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, promises a significant performance boost over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. But will these results be enough to beat Apple's A18 Pro chip!
Qualcomm recently showed impressive test results for its new Snapdragon X Elite chip. However, there are doubts about the reliability of this data.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Plus processor, which is a more affordable version of the flagship Snapdragon X Elite chip, has been revealed in the Geekbench ML listing. This new chip is expected to ship for mid-range devices.
Qualcomm is gearing up for the unveiling of its Snapdragon X laptop processors and in its X social network account, it has revealed the date of its product launch with some hints.
At the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference, Qualcomm unveiled two new chips focused on embedded systems and the IoT ecosystem. They are the Qualcomm QCC730 Wi-Fi chip and the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 platform. They provide on-device AI processing and high performance with low power consumption.
Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans say the company is confident the new ARM-based Windows notebook series will outperform Apple's M3-powered MacBook Air in both CPU performance and AI-accelerated tasks.
Qualcomm, a leading microchip maker, is internally testing at least two versions of the new Snapdragon X Plus chip.
Last month, Lenovo's mysterious laptop based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor already passed a performance test in Geekbench. Then the performance figures obtained during the test did not quite match Qualcomm's claims about the new ARM chip. In the second test of the processor things are already better.
Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 is the successor of Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2. According to the manufacturer, the novelty has received a significant performance increase (45% improved GPU and 15% CPU). In addition, Qualcomm has worked on the energy efficiency of SoC. It increased by 5%.
Samsung has significantly increased its reliance on Qualcomm for high-end chipsets in recent years. Flexible screen smartphones have remained exclusively Snapdragon-powered, and the Galaxy S23 series also used Qualcomm's chipset exclusively. Samsung brought back Exynos only this year with the launch of the Galaxy S24 lineup, although Snapdragon variants exist in some markets.
The chip is a simplified version of the SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It is built on the same 4-nanometre process and boasts a 3.0GHz Cortex-X4 main core, four 2.8GHz performance cores and three 2.0GHz efficient cores. In comparison, the maximum frequency of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 cores reaches 3.4 GHz. In addition, the processors differ in the configuration of cores (1+4+3 for Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 and 1+5+2 for Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) and graphics (Adreno 735 instead of Adreno 750).
Qualcomm is preparing to launch its new flagship mobile chipset, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, at the upcoming Snapdragon Summit in October. According to South Korean news outlet Ajunews, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could be one of the first mobile SoCs to support LPDDR6 memory. While Apple's A18 Pro chipset is rumoured to use LPDDR5T memory.
