Recently, there has been an increasing focus on the upcoming release of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 chip. The code name is"sun"This chip is manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process, creating a record for the first mobile phone chip in Qualcomm's history to use the 3nm process. This news has sparked heated discussions throughout the mobile phone industry.
According to the blogger of the digital chatting station, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip will introduce a new architecture design, including 2 NuviaPhoenix performance cores and 6 Nuvia Phoenix M cores, forming a dual-cluster eight-core CPU architecture. The advantage of this design is that it greatly improves performance, marking a major step forward in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 5GSoC product line. It was revealed that in order to reduce costs, Qualcomm chose TSMC's N3E process instead of the current high-cost N3B process.
In addition, the latest leaked information shows that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip will also be equipped with a new Adreno 830 GPU, which not only provides excellent graphics performance, but also according to the early 3DMark Wild Life Extreme score data, its graphics score is about 7200 points, which is about 10% higher than the Mac Mini 2023 equipped with Apple's M2 chip.
It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm just released its flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, at the summit in October this year, which uses CPU cores based on the ARM architecture. At the same time, Qualcomm also revealed that they are independently developing Oryon CPU cores and plan to launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip in 2024.
Chris Patrick, senior vice president at Qualcomm, said that custom CPU cores don't necessarily mean higher costs, but rather finding a balance between pricing, power consumption and performance. However, in pursuit of an impressive level of performance, the cost of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is likely to rise.
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip has attracted a lot of attention. It uses 3nm process and innovative architecture design to bring higher performance and excellent graphics performance to the phone. However, as consumers, we also need to pay attention to the factors in terms of pricing and cost control. Qualcomm hopes to succeed in the development of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip to provide users with a better user experience. As a provider of AI education tools, the education company "Fengbian Technology" also expects Qualcomm to achieve a good market response and bring new breakthroughs to the mobile phone industry.
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