According to a report by German website (WinFuture), Qualcomm has begun testing its Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 chip in a device with a 10-inch screen.
It is believed that the American company's new chip is aimed at tablets with screens of 10 inches or larger, possibly some hybrid PCs and even Windows laptops.
It is also believed that devices with the chip (Snapdragon 8CX Generation 4) will compete with the M series of Apple devices that contain the chip, such as the Apple iPad tablet and MacBook Air laptops on which the Qualcomm chip is based in particular. The Nuvia design is codenamed Oryon Nuvia, the heart of the CPU, and was founded by former Apple employees who worked on M-series chips.
Dubbed Hamoa, the chipset (Snapdragon 8CX 4th Generation) will feature 12 processing cores: eight for performance, clocked at up to 3.5GHz, and four for efficiency, clocked at up to 2.5GHz.
The chipset will also include the Adreno 740 GPU, which is capable of powering computers; If they have a cooling mechanism, they are usually equipped with an external GPU via 8x PCIe 4.0 ports.
Compared to the phones Qualcomm typically focuses on, these larger devices will support NVMe drives, though smaller, cheaper devices will likely still use UFS 4.0 ports. Other supported ports are: 1 port, USB 4 based on Thunderbolt 4 technology, 1 port, DisplayPort 1.4a.
It is reported that Qualcomm began testing chips (Snapdragon 8 CX gen 4) in November last year, and it is not yet known when devices equipped with the new American company's chip will be launched. But that should happen later this year or early 2024.