Introducing Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, Qualcomm ventures into a new realm by abandoning the use of ARM-designed processing cores like Cortex or Mali for the first time. Instead, they adopt the research findings of Nuvia, a chip development company acquired by Qualcomm in 2021. The CPU cores, developed by Nuvia engineers under Qualcomm's wing last year, were unveiled as Oryon, representing the first iteration of the Phoenix architecture.

