Qualcomm is reportedly testing 10" tablets with the upcoming chipset with Oryon CPU

Qualcomm is apparently testing its Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 chipset, aka SC8380, inside a development device with a 10” display. This indicates that the chipset will be aimed towards 10” (or larger) tablets and probably some 2-in-1 tablets and even Windows on ARM laptops too. Microsoft might even have another go at a Surface Neo type device with dual screens.

These, of course, will be going up against Apple’s iPads with M-series chipsets and MacBook Airs. Which is fitting since the chipset and its Oryon CPU cores were designed by Nuvia, a company formed by former Apple employees that worked on said M-series chipsets.

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 (code name Hamoa) will have 12 CPU cores, 8 performance (up to 3.4GHz) and 4 efficiency cores (up to 2.5GHz). There will be a built-in Adreno 740 GPU, which is fairly capable, though the larger form factors like laptops can also be equipped with external GPUs (connected over 8x PCIe 4.0), as long as they have the cooling for it.

Those larger devices will also have support for NVMe drives (4x PCIe 4.0), though the smaller and cheaper devices will likely stick to UFS 4.0. Connectivity options include USB 4 (based on Thunderbolt 4) with DisplayPort 1.4a.

Qualcomm has reportedly been testing Hamoa-based development devices since November of last year. It’s not entirely clear when the first commercial devices will become available, it might be later this year or even early 2024. We should start seeing leaked benchmark results before then, however.

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