Qualcomm has officially announced that its Snapdragon Summit 2024 will take place from October 24th to 26th in Maui, Hawaii.
Snapdragon Summit is an annual event that typically serves as the platform for unveiling the company’s next-generation flagship mobile processor, and this year should be no different. The spotlight of the event will be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor.
The SoC will be built by TSMC on a 3nm node and will feature custom Oryon CPU cores. Unlike the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s 1 + 3 + 4 layout, the chip will reportedly have a 2 + 6 design with no efficiency cores.
The two high-performance cores are said to have a peak clock speed of 4GHz and reportedly score over 3,000 points in single-core and 10,000 points in multi-core tests in Geekbench.
Additionally, Qualcomm is expected to use an upgraded GPU architecture with improved cache and memory compression technology for better performance.
Leaks suggest that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 can run Genshin Impact smoothly for 45 minutes, maintaining a stable frame rate. That’s pretty impressive considering it’s a pretty demanding title.
Xiaomi is expected to announce the Xiaomi 15 series soon after the event, making it the first smartphone to feature the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
OnePlus and iQOO are also rumored to be prepping their OnePlus 13 and iQOO 13 lines, respectively, powered by the new Qualcomm chip.
Moving on, Samsung will also equip its Galaxy S25 series with the new SoC. But as usual, we can expect it to be an overclocked version of the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC debuting under the Made for Galaxy tag.
While the Snapdragon Summit will undoubtedly shed more light on the upcoming chipset, for now, it’s a waiting game to see how the next generation of Qualcomm’s flagship mobile processor unfolds.
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