WinFuture: successor to Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 has 12 cores and is built on 3nm

According to tech website WinFuture, the successor to the Qualcomm 8cx Gen 3 SoC will contain twelve cores, of which eight are high-performance cores and four are economical cores. The chip will reportedly be built on a 3nm process and use UFS 4.0 memory.

According to the editors of WinFuture this new ARM SoC will also use the X65 5G modem introduced in 2021. The tech site reports that this 5G modem may not be integrated into all variants of the new SoC, and states that Qualcomm has two versions of the SoC in the pipeline. A first variant would have been internally given the name SC8380X, while a second variant is known as SC8380XP.

The new SoC is said to have been developed in collaboration with employees of Nuvia, a start-up that Qualcomm acquired at the beginning of 2021 and was founded by chip designers who worked at Apple, among others. At the end of last year, Qualcomm revealed that it wants to release laptop processors in 2023 with cores designed by Nuvia employees. The CEO of the chip company then stated that Qualcomm wants to offer the best performing low-power CPU.