We know more about Hamoa, the future ARM processor for Qualcomm’s laptop

Some information has leaked about Qualcomm’s next processor. This SoC from the teams of the start-up Nuvia should equip laptops. Called Hamoa, it would be made up of 12 hybrid cores (8P+8E) descended from the Phoenix cores developed by Nuvia. The RAM and cache layout would be similar to that of Apple’s M1. According to the source of these leaks, Hamoa would also be able to manage a dedicated graphics processor.

Ming-Chi Kuo, famous leaker of Apple products, also provided some details on the fineness of engraving, since it is TSMC which will be in charge of engraving this Soc in 4 nm during the third quarter of 2023. We now know that this timing is compromised, in particular because of a lawsuit between Qualcomm and the ARM foundation.

For his part, Kuba Wojciechowski ventures to predict the capabilities of Qualcomm’s SoC with single-tasking performance superior to the M1 and superior to the M1 Max in multitasking. He adds that an 8-core version will be available, probably with 4 performance cores and four efficiency cores.

We will have to be very patient to discover this new SoC, which is not expected before the beginning of 2024 in laptop PCs. Until then, Microsoft will have time to improve the management of the ARM architecture, and Apple to announce the third iteration of its M.