Qualcomm has announced that its custom Oryon cores will come to its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile SoC in 2024. This is the first time that Qualcomm will use its own CPU cores in a smartphone chipset since the Snapdragon 820 and 821 in 2016.
Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, a chip design company founded by former Apple engineers, in March 2021. Nuvia is developing custom Arm-compatible CPU cores, and Qualcomm has said that the Oryon cores are based on Nuvia’s designs.
Qualcomm has already announced the Snapdragon X Elite PC chipset featuring the Oryon CPU. The company claims that the Oryon cores offer better single-threaded performance than both the Apple Silicon M2 Max and the Intel Core i9-13980HX while consuming 70% less power than the Core i9-13960HX for the same amount of work completed.
However, it’s unlikely that the Oryon cores in their current computing-focused state will make it to mobile. Instead, Qualcomm is likely to use cut-down versions of the Oryon cores on mobile.
This will give Qualcomm more control over the design of its CPUs and could allow the company to differentiate itself from its competitors, which use modified Arm Total Compute Solutions (TCS) cores.
It’s not yet clear exactly what form the Oryon cores will take on mobile. However, the fact that Qualcomm is using its own custom CPU cores is an exciting development for the mobile industry. It could lead to more powerful and efficient mobile devices in the future.
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