These Brands Could Launch the First Snapdragon 8 Gen 4-Powered Phones

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC was unveiled in October 2023 and the Xiaomi 14 collection was the primary handset to characteristic this flagship chipset with a peak clock velocity of three.3GHz. The corporate’s subsequent era chipset — the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 — is predicted to be launched within the final quarter of 2024. In response to a brand new leak, Xiaomi will as soon as once more be the primary smartphone producer to launch a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC-powered handset. The Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Professional may very well be the primary gadgets to make use of the brand new chipset.

Tipster Yogesh Brar (@heyitsyogesh) on X (previously Twitter) claims that Xiaomi would be the first model to unveil telephones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor. The Chinese language smartphone model has “unique first launch rights” for the brand new chipset and the Xiaomi 15 and Xiaomi 15 Professional would be the first smartphone to reach with the following era cellular platform, Brar says. The OnePlus 13 and iQoo 13 may very well be the following two telephones to launch with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.

The Xiaomi 14 lineup was the primary to get the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip after it was unveiled by Qualcomm final yr. The Xiaomi 15 flagships are additionally anticipated to be launched in China earlier than they’re launched in world markets. Primarily based on the Xiaomi 14 collection, we will speculate that these telephones may very well be launched quickly after this yr’s flagship processor is launched.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC is expected to be designed utilizing TSMC’s 3nm fabrication course of. It may characteristic a customized Oryon CPU and Qualcomm’s FastConnect 7900 connectivity system. It’s also anticipated to reach on different flagship handsets just like the Samsung Galaxy S25 collection and the Asus Zenfone 11.

Xiaomi’s 14 and Xiaomi 14 Professional have been launched in China in October 2023. The Xiaomi 14 is priced at Rs. 69,999 for the 12GB + 512GB variant in India, whereas the Xiaomi 14 Ultra was launched at Rs. 99,999 within the nation.