It’s been a little over a month since we had the first news that Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, the next generation of Qualcomm’s flagship smartphone SoC, will feature important differences from its predecessors. As we told you at the end of October, the technology company has already announced (in a year) that there will be a substantial change to the platform, as it will abandon the high-performance Cortex cores and instead use, as it stated, lThe new Oryon, which will also power the integrated with which Qualcomm intends to compete in the PC field with the X86-64 and Apple Silicon families.

As we already stated then, This movement is interesting but complex, because there are many differences between a PC, even if it’s a laptop, and a smartphone, so it sounds like a titanic task for engineering teams. So much so that it actually seemed almost from the first moment that the Oryon cores would most likely be significantly modified before they could be integrated into the future Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.

Time has proven those of us who thought this way right, as the latest information on the matter suggests The cores of the new generation of this platform will not be Oryon, but Phoenix, a modified version of them and thus adapted to the requirements of a SoC aimed at the smartphone market. It has also been publicly revealed that the codename used to refer to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is Sun.

However, the previous revelations are quite short compared to the leak that reflected Wccftech, and that Qualcomm will give up efficient cores in Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. A move that is remarkable, but could also be on MediaTek’s agenda for the future generation of the Dimensity platform. And the interesting aspect regarding this difference is that both Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 as the Dimensity 9400, it will come out of TSMC’s three-nanometer node.

But then what do we find in the CPU of this SoC? According to the information collected by this publication Qualcomm decided on an eight-core configuration (2+6), with two high-performance Phoenix cores and an additional six mid-level Phoenix cores. So the most interesting thing will be to test both the multi-threaded performance of the integrated device, which can be spectacular, and also its energy efficiency, where this new approach could falter.