Ice Universe, a reliable tipster, reports that Qualcomm is selling the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 at a 20.68% higher price than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This suggests upcoming flagship phones will be more expensive than current top-end smartphones.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tipster-claims-Snapdragon-8-Gen-4-costs-nearly-21-more-than-its-predecessor.885867.0.html
Phones are at the point where they need better cooling solutions and battery life, not more powerful CPUs.
They need to draw less power. Period. 4 years ago a flagship would consume 7-9 W when benchmarketing. Now 17.4 W peak. SD8 G2 was 13.7 W peak.