Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: The Multinational Semiconductor Manufacturing company Qualcomm, has recently launched it’s newest flagship chipset Snapdragon 8 gen 3 with multiple combined features including various AI enhanced program.
Now this multinational company has announced it’s another flagship chipset to be launched shortly in this year, as said by Savi Soin, president of Qualcomm India during the “Indian Mobile Congress 2023” in new Delhi.
Also Qualcomm capped of it’s announcement at Mobile world congress, the company confirmed that its next chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, will arrive in October and pack new tech that could raise a new sensation enhancing smartphone performances.
Qualcomm’s snapdragon 8 Gen 4, global announcement:
Qualcomm’s CMO Don McGuire, posted this news X while recapping MWC on Wednesday. He confirmed the date and the name of the company’s next flagship mobile chip, which isn’t too big of a surprise, as it follows the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 released in October 2023.
Still, it shows Qualcomm’s confidence in revealing a release window and name this early in the year. Importantly, McGuire mentioned a big advancement and performance enhancements coming in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The mobile chip will use a version of the Oryon CPU ( a CPU core ) in the company’s Snapdragon X Elite silicon for PCs, for High performance gaming and multitasking, that launched at the Snapdragon Summit in October.
The Oryon CPU is the centerpiece of the Snapdragon X Elite:
a proprietary chip that enabled the entire chipset to meet or going beyond the performance of Apple’s top-tier M2 laptop silicon chip. Qualcomm said in the mobile world congress in Barcelona, last October that the Oryon CPU would arrive in mobile devices in 2024. But McGuire’s comments confirm the timeline and that it’s going to be present in the main Snapdragon 8 product line, the snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
McGuire didn’t provide other specifics about what’s coming in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. But, we can expect performance and efficiency improvements in the new version Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, including generative AI enhancement.
It could give top-tier Android phones an advantage against upcoming iPhones in particular, as Apple hasn’t discussed whether it plans to add generative AI capabilities for an upgradation to the iPhone 16. Rumors suggest that the next big iPhone software update iOS 18 may add AI features.
Conclusion and affirmation:
McGuire has also hinted at Qualcomm’s wider direction as it’s newcomer snapdragon 8 Gen 4, when it comes to AI, calling it a suggestive recommendation engine, sixth sense and second brain for your phone.
While he was speaking generally about the technology , and mentioning the Humane AI wearable shown off at MWC(Mobile World Congress). This vision falls in the line with the assistive AI(Artificial intelligence), cases we’ve already experienced in Qualcomm’s first generation of generative AI-packing chipsets.