During the Snapdragon Summit 2022, Qualcomm unveiled the name of our next-generation CPU for Snapdragon platforms — Qualcomm Oryon. This is Qualcomm’s newly-designed custom CPU core.
In the past, Snapdragon chipsets have been powered by the Kryo processors which were designed based on licenses from ARM, starting with the Snapdragon 820 (in 2015) followed by the mid-range Snapdragon 636 and Snapdragon 660 (2017), and the entry-level Snapdragon 632 (2018). These chipsets are derivatives of the ARM Cortex implementation.
With the Oryon CPU, Qualcomm will design and create its own CPU in the hopes of producing more powerful and efficient chipsets. Not much else has been revealed by Qualcomm but all these plans are supposed to roll out in 2023.
Qualcomm also announced earlier this week the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset which is still based on the Kyro CPU.
