WinFuture: successor Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 has 12 cores and is baked at 3nm

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

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

The new soc would have been developed in collaboration with employees of Nuvia, a start-up that Qualcomm acquired in early 2021 and was founded by chip designers who have worked at Apple, among others. At the end of last year, Qualcomm already 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.