Talk about future Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 It may seem a little premature, given that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoCs were officially unveiled this week, so it would be appropriate to make assumptions about the first high-end smartphones to hit the market with integrated Qualcomm’s latest generation. Of course, this is the world of technology, we haven’t had enough to “taste” what the current generation has to offer and we’ve already stepped on the next one.

However, I clarify that I do not find this to be something negative or reprehensible. On the contrary, and especially if the information is reliable in this regard, it can be very useful choose whether you want to buy a current generation device Or if, given what the next one brings, it might be worth the wait a little longer. We recently saw this, for example, with the Apple Watch Series 9, which is a minor refresh over the previous generation, as Apple seems to be reserving the fireworks for next year’s generation, a series whose name will celebrate ten years of the Cupertino Smartwatch.

But in that case we’re talking about rumours, leaks and speculation, as Apple obviously hasn’t said anything about it at the moment and can’t be expected to do so until its launch in September next year, so there’s no certainty in that sense. Different, very different is the case of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, because in this case we are not talking about a possible change, no, We are talking about something that we know for sure will happen..

The certainty I am talking about is as the title of this post suggests Qualcomm will use the new Oryon cores in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoCwhich is expected to be introduced within a year, in October 2024. And we know this because, as NotebookCheck reminds us, it was Qualcomm itself that pushed it during the announcement of the third generation of the Snapdragon 8 platform.

And what does it mean? A few weeks ago, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Although its debut is scheduled for 2024, and therefore Qualcomm has not yet revealed more specific information about it, information about the Snapdragon was leaked last week. The key to this is that instead of Cortex cores, it will use additional, customized and high performance, called Oryon, which promise to fight the point of performance without neglecting efficiency. I remember that in an integrated aimed at the PC market.

So Qualcomm’s plans include porting cores originally designed for the PC ecosystem to the mobile platform, with the debut of this performance bet on the mobile platform in just one year. We can assume that such a bet will require several thousand hours of engineering to adapt these cores to the peculiarities of the mobile platform (consumption, temperature, etc.), but if they do it well (and it’s not easy), Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could really mean a huge performance leap over Gen 3.