Final week a report claimed that Xiaomi has the unique first launch rights for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC, and right now a brand new rumor tells us when precisely to count on stated launch. In line with the prolific leaker Digital Chat Station, the primary system powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is tentatively scheduled to reach in mid-October.
If the earlier report concerning Xiaomi’s exclusivity was correct, this implies the Xiaomi 15 (and presumably the 15 Professional alongside it) will turn into official in mid-October.
Xiaomi 14
After all lots can change between every now and then as we’re nonetheless fairly removed from that second, nevertheless it’s value noting that the Xiaomi 14 was introduced on October 26 final 12 months. So mid-October this time round would solely imply an unveiling round one to 2 weeks sooner than what occurred in 2023 – that is positively not a stretch.
Observe that this preliminary launch of the Xiaomi 15 is seems to be just for the Chinese language market, as has been the case for the corporate’s flagships for a number of years now. The Xiaomi 14 solely made its worldwide debut this February at MWC.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 allegedly reaches a single-core rating of round 2,700 and a multi-core rating of about 10,000 in Geekbench, in accordance with Digital Chat Station. Its CPU is alleged to sport two further giant cores that will likely be clocked at 3.6 to 4 GHz. The leaker tells us to count on comparatively giant theoretical efficiency enhancements on each the CPU and the GPU aspect.
