Qualcomm is not any stranger to growing ARM-based pc processors having launched the Snapdragon 8cx and extra lately the 8cx Gen 2, nonetheless they pale compared to Apple’s lately releases 5 nm M1 chip. Qualcomm has acknowledged that Apple’s newest silicon is an indication of the place the way forward for computing goes and it might appear they’ve been making ready a competitor. In a brand new report from WinFuture it’s revealed that Qualcomm has been growing a brand new SOC with inside mannequin quantity SC8280 as a successor to the 8cx Gen 2.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon SC8280 was present in two configurations one with eight GB of LPDDR5 RAM whereas the opposite was coupled with 32 GB of LPDDR4X reminiscence. This is double what Apple gives with the M1 chip which is barely obtainable in eight GB and 16 GB LPDDR4X configurations. The chip has additionally seen a 13% die measurement improve coming in at 20 mm x 17 mm up from the 20 mm x 15 mm on the 8cx Gen 2. This new processor continues to be underneath improvement and it’s but to been seen the way it will evaluate with the M1 or the rumored 12-core Apple processor.
