Mystery Snapdragon 8 chip produced by TSMC using its 4nm node،
In 2021, when everyone expected Qualcomm's next flagship application processor (AP) to be the Snapdragon 898, Digital Chat Station published that the chip would be called Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. And of course , history has shown that he was right. He's made other good calls since then, which is why we should pay attention to his latest Weibo post (via Gizmochina).
Apparently, Qualcomm has a mysterious chip with the model number SM8635. The chip would be manufactured by TSMC using its 4nm process node. We know it's not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 because that chip will use Qualcomm's own CPU cores and is expected to be manufactured using TSMC's second-generation 3nm node, N3E.
Digital Chat Station posts about the mystery chip
The mystery chip, according to Digital Chat Station, will feature a Cortex-X4 Prime CPU core and an Adreno 735 GPU. The leaker added that the chip achieved an AnTuTu benchmark score of over 1.7 million. Technical journalist Roland Quandt said in a tweet that Qualcomm has two similar chips in development. The SM7675 is said to be the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, the most powerful SoC in the Snapdragon 7 series. And the other chip is our mystery silicon, the SM8635.
The mystery chip is believed to be similar to the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3
The SM8635 is expected to power the Poco F6, which was initially expected to use the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3. Other phones suspected of using the mystery chip include the Redmi Note 13 Turbo and an iQOO Neo series phone that is on the way.
Considering that the SM8635's AnTuTu score surpassed the score produced by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, one theory is that the chip is a stripped down version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Perhaps something like the Snapdragon 8-Gen 3. No, I'm not. this name is serious, but it gives us an idea of the position of this AP in Qualcomm's current Snapdragon lineup, which sits between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC and the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 SoC.
