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Many popular smartphones and tablets are powered by Snapdragon system-on-chips (SoCs). It has been rumored that the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC will be made by TSMC using its 4nm process node. A high-performance X-4 core running at 3.70GHz, four performance cores, and three efficiency cores are expected to be included in this chip. In addition, an overclocked version of this chip is called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy. It could be used in the Galaxy S24 lineup in 2024.

An anonymous tipster named Revegnus recently tweeted about TSMC’s N3E process node, which is expected to be used to manufacture Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoCs. Compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Oryon cores in this chip are expected to improve multi-core performance by 40%.

TSMC’s second-generation 3nm node offers improved performance and energy efficiency. In January 2021, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, the company behind the Oryon cores, for $1.5 billion.

Revegnus expects the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to score 6500 on the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark test. According to predictions, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will score above 9000  which is 40% higher than the M2.

With two Nuvia Phoenix (or Oryon) performance cores and six Nuvia Phoenix (or Oryon) M’ efficiency cores. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 might be an octa-core chip. Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could potentially power the Galaxy S25 series in 2025.