Last year, we reported that Qualcomm is developing a processing chip codenamed "Hamoa" to be a competitor to Apple Silicon's processing chips, specifically the Apple M series of processing chips.
Recently, the person who leaked the details, Kuba Wojciechowski has again leaked more details about the processing chip, which will apparently be called Qualcomm 8cx Gen 4.
Although still in the testing stage, this Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 processing chip is said to come with 12 cores consisting of eight high-performance cores and four efficient cores.
It is currently being tested with speeds around 3.4GHz for the high performance core and 2.5GHz for the efficient core. This processing chip's memory controller also appears to be capable of accommodating up to 64GB of DDR5X memory in an 8-channel configuration.
This processing chip is also loaded with the same Adreno 740 graphics processing chip used in the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 2 processing chip, and can support APIs such as DirectX12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL and even DirectML.
Meanwhile, in terms of support, this "Hamoa" processing chip has support for WiFi7, PCIe 4.0, HFS 2.0 and NVMe storage. In addition to that, this processing chip can also take advantage of technologies such as USB 3.1 10Gbps, USB 4 and DisplayPort 1.4a which lead to the support of three displays with 5K+4K+4K resolution.
As previously reported, this Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 processing chip will be introduced in 2024, most likely for a laptop-class device to compete with Apple's MacBook series offering.