Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8s Gen 3: A Cheaper Chip For…

With the launch of their flagship Snapdragon Eight SoC firmly behind them now, Qualcomm this morning is popping their collective head in direction of the premium market with the launch of one other new Snapdragon Eight household SoC, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. The first of Qualcomm’s ‘s’-subseries of down-market components to be launched beneath the Snapdragon Eight banner, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (8sG3) is meant to be a bridge half between the last-gen flagship 8 Gen 2 and current-gen flagship 8 Gen 3, providing a not-quite-flagship expertise at a lower cost level than Qualcomm’s prime SoC. The new SoC is ready to be out there globally, with the primary telephones introduced this month, although as is commonly the case for Qualcomm’s “premium” market SoCs, it seems to be like solely Chinese handset OEMs will likely be selecting up the chip, not less than initially.

Although Qualcomm prefers to attract comparisons to their present gen flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Snapdragon 8s Gen Three is by and enormous and enhanced model of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Many of the {hardware} blocks of the 8G2 have been carried over to the brand new chip – both in entire or by way of performance – a course of that’s made very simple because of the truth that Qualcomm is constructing the chip on the identical TSMC 4nm node because the 8G2 and 8G3. Compared to the 8G2 then, there are two key differentiators for the 8sG3: a more recent CPU advanced lifted from the 8G3, and official on-device generative AI help.

Starting with the CPU advanced, Qualcomm is implementing Arm’s newest era of Armv9 CPU cores right here, which means a mixture of the Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520. Relative to the flagship 8G3, the 8sG3 offers up one in all its efficiency cores for an additional effectivity core, shifting the…