Qualcomm will redesign the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 after the Apple M4 performs very strongly on Geekbench.
In April, Qualcomm reportedly finalized the design of its upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 application processor (AP) which should be introduced in October. However, after seeing Apple’s upcoming M4 chip deliver record-setting single-core benchmark scores, the rumor mill says that Qualcomm has decided to redesign the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset by June, raising its targeted clock speed from 4GHz to 4.26GHz.
According to „X“ subscriber @jasonwill101 (via Wccftech), Qualcomm’s decision to take on Apple’s high-end M-series and A-series silicon makes sense since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be manufactured by leading foundry TSMC using its second-generation (N3E) 3nm process node. That node will also be used by TSMC to build Apple’s M4 component and its A18 and A18 Pro chipsets that will be used to power the non-Pro and Pro variants of the iPhone 16 line respectively.
However, the design of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP will be based on the Snapdragon X Elite laptop processor which does not work with the ARMv9 instructions set.
