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TL;DR

• Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 smartphone processor.
• It offers a significantly more powerful CPU and GPU compared to the previous generation, as well as a 4nm design.
• This chip will likely power a variety of cheap Android phones.

Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 6 series of processors powers a variety of cheap Android phones, from Motorola and Xiaomi to Samsung and HONOR. Now, the company has revealed the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, which brings some notable improvements.

For starters, Qualcomm says this is the first Snapdragon 6 series chip built on a 4nm manufacturing process (Samsung). That’s a notable deal, as a smaller manufacturing process typically results in a more efficient chipset and improved performance. There’s no word on specific efficiency gains compared to the 6nm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3, though.




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