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Philip Michaels

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip is almost here — can it challenge Apple’s A18?

Qualcomm Oryon CPU graphic from Snapdragon Summit promo video.

This coming week is a big one if you're interested in how the best Android phones arriving in the next year are going to perform. Qualcomm, which makes the silicon that powers most of the top Android devices on the market, holds its annual tech summit starting Monday (October 21). And that should give us a glance at the next top-of-the-line system-on-chip ready to take on Apple's A18 silicon.

Earlier this year, Qualcomm confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 would appear at its annual conference in October, and the company's Snapdragon Summit site also notes that the next generation of Snapdragon chips is very much on the agenda for the week ahead. So it's finally time to see what Qualcomm has been working on and what that will mean for smartphone performance in the very near future.

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