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Qualcomm's first Nuvia based 12 core SoC is exposed, and its performance is expected

Release time : 2022-11-07

In March this year, Qualcomm announced that its subsidiaries had completed the acquisition of Nuvia, a world-class CPU design company, at a price of 1.4 billion US dollars (about 10.108 billion yuan), excluding working capital and other adjustments.

According to Qualcomm, its first Nuvia based chip is not expected to be available until 2024, but this does not mean that the company will do nothing until then.

Discloser @ Za_ Raczke released some news about Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. He also said that Qualcomm is developing a desktop processor code named "Hamoa". It has 12 (8P+4E) cores (based on Nuvia Phoenix design), and a memory/cache configuration similar to Apple M1, which clearly supports unique display.

According to his sources, this SoC performance is "very promising".

Qualcomm has previously introduced SoC such as Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. At present, such products have been applied to thin and light Windows PCs, so we are not sure why he would say that this "Hamoa" is used for desktop platforms, but it does not rule out that Qualcomm's first Nuvia chip can be used for high-performance platforms, similar to Apple's Ultra chip.

It is worth mentioning that according to Qualcomm's counterclaim against Arm, after 2024, external GPUs, NPUs or ISPs will no longer be allowed to be used in SOC based on ARM's public CPU. If Qualcomm is unable to solve this problem, their Snapdragon and Nuvia chips may be deeply affected.