According to a new report, Qualcomm may have a third flagship chipset up its sleeve for 2025. Sitting between the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, the SM8845 should come up just short of the Snapdragon 8 Elite to provide a near-flagship experience to sub-brands such as Redmi, Realme and iQOO.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-reveals-specs-for-new-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-SM8845-chipset-destined-for-affordable-flagships.998270.0.html
Absolutely moronic segmentation. They could just lower the price of the soon to be superseded Elite (possibly lower clocks a little) and offer that as the lower tier alternative to the ELite 2. Why go to the trouble of yet another SoC to fill a niche already covered by existing SoC's.
Quote from: Terror Byte on April 14, 2025, 02:23:15Absolutely moronic segmentation. They could just lower the price of the soon to be superseded Elite (possibly lower clocks a little) and offer that as the lower tier alternative to the ELite 2. Why go to the trouble of yet another SoC to fill a niche already covered by existing SoC's.
Makes a lot of sense and would save design time and costs. Maybe fuse some cache off just in case someone jailbreaks it and over clocks it. That way it would never reach the performance of the former flagship.