He Snapdragon 8 4th generation which Qualcomm may announce in the coming weeks and which will be available in the next flagships of brands such as Samsung or Xiaomi, will not be there. This is not true, at least in some sense. The US processor company may change the name of its mobile SoCs in a few years, and this model could be the first to suffer from this new unexpected twist.
According to rumors coming from source of information known as @DCS on various forums, including the Chinese social network Weibo (and via XiaomiTime), Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 from Qualcomm It will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite. or Snapdragon 8 Ultra, which eliminates the generation as a surname. Qualcomm could even completely change the name of the processor in the Asian market, calling it Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 name change is something Xiaomi also announced a few weeks ago when they confirmed the launch date in a post on their official profiles Xiaomi 15. The Asian company, in particular, assured that the smartphone will have a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Qualcomm, of course, has not yet confirmed a name change for its most powerful mobile processor, but everything indicates that it will do so during Snapdragon Summit 2024which will take place October 21-23 in Hawaii.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 or Snapdragon 8 Elite will be the first to appear on these phones.
In fact, Xiaomi 15, like its older brothers, Xiaomi 15 Pro and 15 Ultrawill be the first mobile phones to be equipped with this new processor. The SoC will also soon be available for other high-end smartphones such as the Galaxy S25, OnePlus’ flagship; OnePlus 13 and others.
Although Qualcomm, once again, hasn’t said anything about it, everything points to the Snapdragon 8 Elite coming with Orion processorwhich will be more powerful and efficient than the embedded processor of other generations. We also assume that the one so far called Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will also include other improvements to enable artificial intelligence functions, especially since most manufacturers are including these features in their devices.
On the other hand, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 or Snapdragon 8 Elite will support LPDDRX5 RAM as well as UFS 4.0 storage with read and write speeds of 4500MB/s and 4000MB/s respectively. According to the leaked benchmark test, the SoC managed to score 3,236 points in single-core mode and 10,049 points in multi-core mode.
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