According to the enthusiastic Ice Universe, Samsung is also planning to launch the next flagship smartphone before the anniversary of the current Galaxy S23 series. To recap, Xiaomi is rumored to launch the Xiaomi 14 series before the Singles Day special event in China. Traditionally, this event will take place on November 11, a month before the presentation of Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro. Thus, Xiaomi may be less than two months from replacing flagships based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. .
Qualcomm is said to be able to do this by introducing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in October, eleven months after the unveiling of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. According to previous leaks, Qualcomm has switched to TSMC’s N4P nodes for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 , a minor upgrade from the N4 nodes that underpin all Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 variants. Additionally, Qualcomm is said to be building the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with a 3.3 GHz ARM Cortex-X4 main core , three Cortex-A720 performance cores that can reach 3.15 GHz, another two Cortex-A720 cores limited to 2.95 GHz and a pair of Cortex-A520 efficiency cores that do not exceed 2.27 GHz.
In addition, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is rumored to also include the Adreno 750, a GPU that is expected to outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s Adreno 740 by more than 50%. However, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is also expected for the Galaxy, which is also expected to boost the main Cortex-X4 core from 3.3 GHz to 3.39 GHz. Samsung will reportedly start manufacturing the Galaxy S24 series in November. , a month earlier than last year’s Galaxy S23 series. Thus, it seems that Samsung is aiming for a January 2024 launch for the next Galaxy S smartphones.
In addition, ETNews reports that Samsung will produce 30 million units of the Galaxy S24 series, 10% more than its predecessor. By the way, the Galaxy S23 series outsold the Galaxy S22 series by more than a fifth, so a 10% increase is a fairly conservative estimate on Samsung’s part. ETNews added that the Galaxy S24 Ultra will comprise the most units produced, with 15 million estimated compared to 7.5 million units each for the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus.
