Qualcomm and MediaTek narrowed the technological gap with Apple Silicon by leveraging TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400, but the lack of SME, or Scalable Matrix Extension, meant that both chipsets were still leaving performance on the table. Thankfully, a tipster notes that next year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 and the Dimensity 9500 will support this architecture, allowing both SoCs to be on par with Apple’s current-generation technology in tackling complex workloads, resulting in a 20 percent performance bump in both single-core and multi-core workloads. Qualcomm could mass produce the Snapdragon 8 Elite […]