Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Gets A Launch Timeline Earlier Than Expected, Qualcomm’s Upcoming Flagship To Be Announced In October
It typically takes Qualcomm several months before announcing the Snapdragon Summit, where it will unveil its top-tier chipset that will power the premium smartphones that will arrive the following year. However, things were outright different on this occasion, as the company CMO put out a video stating that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which will be the San Diego firm’s first silicon to launch with proper in-house Oryon cores, will be announced in October.
No vital specifications details of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 were shared in the video
The Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm, Don McGuire, made the surprise revelation during Mobile World Congress, where he posted a video below through X on the @Snapdragon_UK official account, saying that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 would be unveiled in October. The two-minute video does not provide anything else other than the launch month, but that does not mean that we have not collected valuable information ourselves.
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Unlike Qualcomm’s earlier high-end smartphone chipsets, this year’s version will shift away from ARM’s CPU designs, adopting what tipsters are calling ‘Phoenix’ cores, but here is the interesting bit. Just like the Dimensity 9300, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is expected to forego any efficiency cores, sporting an all-performance CPU cluster that will likely be designed to deliver unrivaled multi-core performance while touting incredible efficiency thanks to being mass produced on TSMC’s second-generation 3m process, also known as ‘N3E.’
While consumers purchasing Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 flagships are expected to be in for a treat, Qualcomm’s partners may not receive the same treatment. After all, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 estimated to cost $200, one Qualcomm executive has hinted that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be the most expensive smartphone chipset the company has ever made, primarily thanks to those custom
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