Leaked Qualcomm documents allegedly reveal that we will see two variants of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset.
Next month, Qualcomm is expected to introduce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset that will be made by TSMC using its 4nm process node. This is the SoC that will replace the powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 application processor (AP) found on most flagship Android phones. But there could be a surprise coming as well. Leaked documents alleged to come from Qualcomm were published by South Korea’s gamma0burst (via Gizmochina) revealing a second variant of the chipset.The documents mention that the SoC will feature the Cortex-X4 prime CPU core, the Cortex-A720 performance CPU core, and the Cortex-A520 efficiency CPU core as expected. But they also state that there will be a second variant. While the AP will be produced using TSMC’s 4nm process node, the second variant will be produced using TSMC’s N3E (enhanced) 3nm node.
