It has been previously stated that the PC-level Snapdragon X Elite processor will adopt the self-designed Oryon CPUUsed in mobile phone processors, the expectation isThe next Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processorQualcomm earlier announced thatSnapdragon Tech Summit 2024The teaser video also announced that a mobile processor based on the Oryon CPU design will be unveiled soon.
The Oryon CPU is derived from NUVIA technology acquired by Qualcomm and was first used in the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors for laptops. However, considering that smartphones require more sustained power consumption than laptops, it is possible that the Oryon CPU will incorporate a larger and smaller core, or be designed to operate at different clock speeds.
As to whether it is referring to MediaTek's "all big core" configuration in its Dimensity 9300, which uses TSMC's smaller process design to reduce overall power consumption, and uses the previous big cores as relatively "small cores", while the super-large cores are used in the form of "big cores", while in essence still maintaining the "big and small cores" configuration, it cannot be confirmed at the moment.
Prior to this, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said that the existing Arm external licensing architecture designNo longer able to meet its expected performance, will continue to use NUVIA technology to promote new computing growth, and update its architecture design every two years to match different computing performance specifications to meet a wider range of application needs.
However, due to the current patent licensing dispute between Qualcomm and Arm, the Oryon CPU for mobile processors will likely remain based on the Armv8 instruction set architecture. Compared to MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity 9 processor, which will incorporate the Armv9400 instruction set architecture, it will likely depend on whether Qualcomm's proprietary architecture design can achieve higher processor performance.
