Qualcomm is all set to host the Snapdragon Summit from October 24 to 26 in Maui, Hawaii, where the company will introduce the upcoming flagship processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. It will offer significant upgrades in performance and battery efficiency from its predecessor.
The company has teased the event date in a poster, the text of which reads: "Catch the next wave of mind-blowing innovation". According to GSMArena, this is a month before the usual schedule. This chipset may have a new 1+5+2 architecture compared to the 1+2+2+3 in the current and Snapdraong 8 Gen 1 series, the report added.
It may have a single Cortex-X4 prime, five Cortex-A720 and two Cortex-A520 cores paired with Adreno 750 GPU. The L3 cache memory will be upgraded to 10MB (from 8MB). It will likely power upcoming flagship phones from diverse smartphone manufacturers. According to reports, the processor may arrive in two variants: one for laptops and tablets and the second for smartphones.
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It will likely be manufactured using a 4nm fabrication process. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, the new processor could arrive in the upcoming Xiaomi 14 series, which could debut in November. Plus, the Vivo X100 series, Redmi K70 series, iQOO 12 series, Realme GT5, and OnePlus 12 could have the new chipset for performance.
On a related note, the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile platform has a clock speed of up to 3.36GHz and is based on a 64-bit architecture. It supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, a primary camera of up to 200MP and 8K video recording.
Speaking of the current offerings, Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, Xiaomi 13 Pro, OnePlus 11, and iQOO 11 have this processor under the hood. All the phones in the list come at a premium price and promise a top-notch experience for the users.