The internet has been flooded with rumours about the latest and greatest processor from Snapdragon, set to hit us with another wave of ground-breaking technology. The latest findings about an upcoming iteration of a Snapdragon SoC has caught everyone’s imagination recently – the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
In a way it seems remarkable that we’re already speculating about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip before Qualcomm has even released Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the most likely successor to current flagship level Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. But that’s the kind of world we’re living in at the moment.
The rumoured Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC is expected to introduce a new and exciting set of technological innovations that are slated to lay the grounds for more efficient and powerful Android and Windows devices, something along the lines of Apple’s M-series of processors.
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Let’s take a look at what the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 can do, while we are still waiting for Gen 3 to hit the market. That’s right, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 already!
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 with SM87505 model number is expected to use Nuvia CPU technology, said the tipster Digital Chat Station. In addition the Snapdragon smartphone processors are to run on a Nuvia CPU.
Nuvia was acquired by Qualcomm in January 2021. Former Apple engineers who intended to apply their skills to Arm-based system-on-chips (SoCs) for servers created the processing firm. A few months later, Qualcomm released a thorough update on its plans for SoCs based on the Nuvia technology, and it openly stated that it hoped to compete with the Apple M1 in the market for always-connected PCs (ACPCs) with a processor.
“The addition of NUVIA CPUs to Qualcomm Technologies’ already leading mobile graphics processing unit (GPU), AI engine, DSP and dedicated multimedia accelerators will further extend the leadership of Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, and positions Snapdragon as the preferred platform for the future of connected computing,” suggested the released report.
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The tipster has also suggested that we can anticipate a release for the processors in late 2024 for 2025’s phones wherein the phone processors will have a 2+6 CPU core layout. So we can anticipate that Qualcomm has brought back Snapdragon 845’s two-tier architecture after a line-up of three-tier architecture from Snapdragon 855 to the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and prolly SD 8 Gen 3 which held big core + medium core (s) + small core (s) design.
Now some findings and reports about the upcoming iteration of Snapdragon SoCs, is said to be powerful enough that it can potentially outperform Apple’s latest M2 processors. If the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is anywhere close to what it is being touted to be, it will make for a really interesting introduction in the Android and PC market, bringing along devices that are more powerful and efficient than ever!