Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 is expected to be mainly used in small-screen notebooks, with a 10-inch internal development device.

CTOnews.com, Feb. 8, according to rquandt, Qualcomm internally uses a 10-inch screen device to test Snapdragon 8cx Gen4, which may mean Qualcomm will use Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 to build a batch of Surface Neo products.

Qualcomm has reportedly been testing Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 with a 10-inch development device since November 2022. Foreign media said that in general, the external dimensions of the display screen used by Qualcomm in the development process roughly correspond to the external dimensions of the finished products in the future. This may mean that Qualcomm intends to use Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 processors for small-screen laptops or two-in-one devices, such as the Surface Neo above.

To summarize the revelation information released by CTOnews.com, Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 will adopt the specification of 12 cores, 8 performance cores + 4 energy efficiency cores. The performance core is about 3.4GHz, and the performance core is about 2.5GHz.

In other ways, the chip supports LPDDR5x memory up to 64GB, and the integrated GPU is Adreno 740. it is the same as GPU in Snapdragon 8 Gen2, and provides DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL and DirectML support. The processor connects to a stand-alone GPU through eight PCIe 4.0channels and also supports PCIe 4.0SSD and UFS 4.0flash memory. Wireless networks support Wi-Fi 7. In terms of IO, the chip supports two USB 3.1 10Gbps ports and three USB 4 (Thunderbolt 4) ports supporting DisplayPort 1.4a. In addition, the display output of the chip has been greatly improved, and the chip can output resolution as high as 5K+4K+4K at the same time.