Final week a report claimed that Xiaomi has the unique first launch rights for Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC, and at this time a brand new rumor tells us when precisely to count on stated launch. Based on the prolific leaker Digital Chat Station, the primary machine powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is tentatively scheduled to reach in mid-October.
If the earlier report relating to Xiaomi’s exclusivity was correct, this implies the Xiaomi 15 (and presumably the 15 Professional alongside it) will grow to be official in mid-October.
Xiaomi 14
After all so much can change between from time to time as we’re nonetheless fairly removed from that second, however 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.
Be aware that this preliminary launch of the Xiaomi 15 is prone to be just for the Chinese language market, as has been the case for the corporate’s flagships for just a few 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, based on Digital Chat Station. Its CPU is alleged to sport two further giant cores that can 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 facet.