Qualcomm has announced that they are developing a new CPU called Oryon for Windows-based ARM. However, it seems that Oryon will also be applied to their smartphone chipset that will debut in Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
This information comes from a tipster named Revegnus. He shared the key specifications and benchmark results of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. SD8 Gen 3 is said to be produced with TSMC’s N4P (4nm) fabrication technology, while SD8 Gen 4 already uses N3E (3nm).
What’s interesting is the new core used in Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which is Nuvia Phoenix alias Oryon, replacing the Cortex core from ARM that Qualcomm has been using so far. According to Revegnus, the chipset will have eight cores with a configuration of two performance cores and six efficiency cores.
The benchmark results show an improvement of up to 40% in multi-core scores compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which according to previous rumors, will have eight cores with a configuration of one prime Cortex X-4 3.70GHz core, four performance cores, and three efficiency cores.
For those who don’t know, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia in 2019 to make ARM-based Windows chipsets in an effort to compete with the Apple M-Series and announced the Oryon CPU late last year.
Although Qualcomm may no longer use Cortex cores from ARM, they are not entirely separate from ARM. The Oryon core is based on ARM V9 architecture, so Qualcomm still has to license it to make their custom core.
