Details about Qualcomm’s next-gen flagship SoC have begun trickling in, months forward of its anticipated debut. The upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is alleged to function a restructured CPU cluster format, and can probably help solely 64-bit computing, eradicating all 32-bit help. The chip is alleged to be codenamed both Lanai or Pineapple, and is anticipated to be launched in late 2023, probably throughout Qualcomm’s annual Summit in Hawaii. If the corporate’s previous launches are something to go by, then we’ll most likely additionally see debut of a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 SoC as a mid-year refresh with improved thermal efficiency and energy effectivity. It’s exhausting to say if the Gen 3 SoC will truly arrive in telephones this 12 months or if we must wait till 2024.
The particulars come through a thread on Twitter by Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za_Raczke) who claims that this next-gen chip can have the mannequin quantity SM8650, and shall be codenamed Lanai, or Pineapple. The tweet states that it’s going to have a brand new CPU configuration with a 2+3+2+1 construction. This consists of two ARM Hayes (A5XX) “Silver” cores, three ARM Hunter (A7XX) “Gold” cores, two ARM Hunter (A7XX) “Titanium” cores, and one ARM Hunter ELP (Xn) “Gold” core. This shall be Qualcomm’s first chip to have “Titanium” cluster and as of now, it is unclear the way it will differ from the “Gold” cluster. Wojciechowski mentions that this new cluster might be configured in a different way with extra cache, or may merely be clocked greater.
According to my sources, the SoC can have the next CPU config:
2x Arm codename Hayes (A5xx) “silver” cores
3x Arm codename Hunter (A7xx) “gold” cores
2x Arm codename Hunter (A7xx) “titanium” cores
1x Arm codename Hunter ELP (Xn) “gold+” core— Kuba Wojciechowski :3 (@Za_Raczke) March 23, 2023
The tweet additional explains that the ARM Hunter and Hunter (ELP) are model new, unannounced CPU cores. This new cluster configuration shall be very totally different from the present 1+4+3 format, and appears to contradict the earlier leak we had which steered the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 would have a 1+5+2 configuration.
Wojciechowski claims that Qualcomm’s code additionally confirms that this SoC will solely help 64-bit computing. The GPU within the upcoming chip is alleged to be the Adreno 750 and presently has a peak clock pace of 770MHz — though it is potential that this might change by the point the SoC is introduced. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can be mentioned to run on model 6.1 of the Linux kernel with Android 14.
Previous rumours steered that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC may launch early this 12 months and would obtain a 25 % bump in efficiency. If that is certainly true, then it is also potential that Qualcomm may skip a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 mannequin and straight launch its successor.
