At MWC 2024, a Qualcomm exec said the mobile chip is coming later this year, with a new CPU and other tech.
Qualcomm capped off its announcements at Mobile World Congress with a quiet reveal that will have a big impact later this year. The company confirmed that its next chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, will arrive in October and pack new tech that could raise the bar for Android smartphone performance.
Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire dropped the news in a post on X while recapping MWC Wednesday. He confirmed the date and the name of the company’s next flagship mobile chip, which isn’t too big of a surprise, as it follows the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 released in October 2023. Still, it shows Qualcomm’s confidence in revealing a release window and name this early in the year.
More importantly, McGuire mentioned a big advancement coming in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The mobile chip will use a version of the Oryon CPU in the company’s Snapdragon X Elite silicon for PCs that launched at the Snapdragon Summit in October.
