Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 is being redesigned: TSMC 3nm blessing, targeting 4.26GHz

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2024-05-13 13:22Posted in Guangdong Digital Creators

  The Qualcomm Snapdragon processor can be said to be the main processor of Android phones at present, and flagship processors like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 are the standard configuration of flagship phones. If nothing else, Qualcomm will launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor in the second half of this year, but now it looks like Qualcomm will redesign the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 in order to better cope with the Apple A18 Pro processor, hoping to reach new heights with the help of TSMC's new process.

According to the revelations of the gods on the Internet, in order to deal with flagship processors such as Apple M4 and A18 Pro, Qualcomm decided to redesign the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor that will be applied to the new generation this year. According to Qualcomm sources, they are very confident in the R&D progress of Snapdragon 8 Gen4, saying that even if it is redesigned, it will not affect the normal release and supply, in addition, Qualcomm also believes that TSMC's 3nm process has brought a strong process dividend to Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4, and it is expected that the frequency of Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will reach a surprising 4.26GHz.

The reason why Qualcomm redesigned the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor this time is that the Armv9 architecture adopted by rival Apple supports "Scalable Matrix" technology, which can achieve better results in some applications, while Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 does not, so in order to lose the performance ratio to the A18 Pro on paper, the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor has to increase the frequency, thereby reducing the performance gap with the A18 Pro.

Although Qualcomm has repeatedly said that TSMC N3E's manufacturing process is quite powerful, the side effect of high-frequency CPU is that the heating is very terrifying, and it is estimated that mobile phone manufacturers will develop a new generation of cooling architecture for the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor, hoping to forcibly pull out the high-frequency Snapdragon 8 Gen4 not to be the same as the Snapdragon 810, just become a joke.

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