Qualcomm's first 12-core SoC based on Nuvia is exposed, and its performance is expected.

CTOnews.com, Nov. 7 (Xinhua)-- in March, Qualcomm announced that its subsidiary had completed its acquisition of Nuvia, a world-class CPU design company, for $1.4 billion (about 10.108 billion yuan), excluding working capital and other adjustments.

According to Qualcomm, its first Nuvia-based chip is not expected to be available until 2024, but that doesn't mean the company won't do anything until then.

Whistleblower @ Za_Raczke released some news about Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, adding that Qualcomm is developing a desktop-level processor codenamed "Hamoa" with 12 (8P+4E) cores (based on Nuvia Phoenix design) and a memory / cache configuration similar to Apple M1, which explicitly supports unique display.

According to his sources, the SoC performance is "very promising".

CTOnews.com learned that Qualcomm has previously launched SoC such as Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which is now used in lightweight Windows PC, so we are not sure why he said this "Hamoa" is for desktop platforms, but we do not rule out the possibility that Qualcomm's first Nuvia chip can be used on high-performance platforms, similar to Apple's Ultra chip.

It is worth mentioning that according to Qualcomm's counterclaim against Arm, external GPU, NPU or ISP will no longer be allowed in SOC based on Arm public domain CPU after 2024. If Qualcomm fails to solve this problem, their Snapdragon and Nuvia chips may be deeply affected.

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