Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 unveiled: first on TSMC 4nm node, first with ARMv9 CPU cores

OSTN Staff

The new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 arrives as a major upgrade over its predecessor and a departure from previous designs in the series. It has improvements in all the key areas of performance, efficiency, gaming, AI, camera and audio.

The Gen 4 chip will be the first in the series fabbed on TSMC’s 4nm node. Previous generations have used a 4nm node from Samsung and a 6nm one from TSMC.

This generation is the first in the 6-series to use ARMv9-based CPU cores – Cortex-A720 (2.3GHz) as the prime core, three more A720 (2.2GHz) as big cores and four Cortex-A520 (1.8GHz) as small cores. Previous…