After Apple's iPhone15Pro series took the lead in using the 3nm chip A17 Pro, the two SoC chip giants Qualcomm and MediaTek will also enter the 3nm era this year.
On March 1, Qualcomm officially confirmed that Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will debut in October. The Snapdragon 8 Gen3 was released on October 24 last year (Beijing time), and the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 is expected to be released a little earlier.
It is reported that the plan for Snapdragon 8Gen4 is to complete the design in April, hand it over to mobile phone manufacturers for testing in June, and mass mass production in September.
Snapdragon 8Gen3 is based on 5 TSMC 4nm process, and adopts a 1+5+2 CPU architecture for the first time, which has one more performance core than the previous 1+4+3 architecture. Compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen2, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 delivers up to 30 more performance and 20 less power consumption.
Since the Dimensity 9300 adopts an all-large-core design, the Dimensity 9300 beats the Snapdragon 8Gen3 in the current mobile phone CPU performance ladder chart and Antutu running score.
According to the leaks, Snapdragon 8Gen4 no longer uses the ARM public architecture, and uses the self-developed Oryon core, 2 Nuvia Phoenix performance cores + 6 Nuvia Phoenix M cores, and the performance soars compared with Snapdragon 8Gen3.
The current news shows that in order to harden Apple's A18 and MediaTek's Dimensity 9400, the maximum CPU of Snapdragon 8Gen4 can reach 4GHz, but this power consumption will be relatively high, after all, Snapdragon 8Gen3 is also 33GHz, so there is a high probability that it will be adjusted in the future.
Last year, Xiaomi not only successfully won the world premiere of Snapdragon 8gen3, but also performed well with the first model Xiaomi 14 series with excellent strength, becoming the best-performing digital flagship series after Xiaomi's "rush".
Therefore, Xiaomi should once again grab the world premiere of the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 and use it on the Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Pro. The price of the Xiaomi 14 Ultra has already increased, and the price of the Xiaomi 15 series is also logical.
Qualcomm officially confirmed the release time of Snapdragon 8gen4: In October, Xiaomi may launch again, with Xiaomi 15 series, and the iPhone 16 with A18 chip is just equipped.
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