Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 re-named (again) in new leak

Qualcomm's hype for its impending first-gen mobile Oryon CPU has prompted a famous leaker to assert that the chipset on which it is to be based really (and "officially") will not be called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 after all.

Accordingly, the upcoming flagship processor is now being referred to as something else on the Digital Chat Station Weibo channel: the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition. However, that contradicts an earlier leak that implied that the same SoC (also heretofore known as the SM8750) was to be called the 8 Elite instead.

It is possible that Digital Chat Station's new claim, written in Chinese, has been misconstrued by machine translation; then again, the "Extreme Edition" could indeed be a successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Version, if not the standard variant of the same chipset.

Nevertheless, it makes sense for Qualcomm to make a change like this, as the silicon in question is not, after all, technically a direct 8 Gen 3 successor. It will come with at least 1 custom CPU core for the first time rather than relying solely on those from ARM (like the Dimensity 9400).

In any case, the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition is now tipped to power a number of the next wave of top-end Android smartphones, the Xiaomi 15 and 15 Pro, OnePlus 13, Realme GT7 Pro and iQOO 13 included.

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