Today Qualcomm announced its mid-range Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and entry-level Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 chipsets. The 6 Gen 1 is built on a 4nm manufacturing process, while the more affordable SD 4 Gen 1 stays on the 6nm node. The first SD 6 Gen 1-powered devices are expected to arrive in Q1 2023 while the SD 4 Gen 1 will make its debut this quarter.
Unfortunately, Qualcomm didn’t share the full specs of the CPUs, so we only know that the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1’s main cores will go up to 2.2GHz while the SD 4 Gen 1’s CPU caps at 2.0GHz. Both offer eight cores, but the architecture and…