Xiaomi 15 rumored to arrive in mid-October with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
Last week a report claimed that Xiaomi has the exclusive first launch rights for Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC, and today a new rumor tells us when exactly to expect said launch. According to the prolific leaker Digital Chat Station, the first device powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is tentatively scheduled to arrive in mid-October.
If the previous report regarding Xiaomi's exclusivity was accurate, this means the Xiaomi 15 (and possibly the 15 Pro alongside it) will become official in mid-October.
Of course a lot can change between now and then as we're still pretty far from that moment, but it's worth noting that the Xiaomi 14 was announced on October 26 last year. So mid-October this time around would only mean an unveiling around one to two weeks earlier than what happened in 2023 - that's definitely not a stretch.
Note that this initial launch of the Xiaomi 15 is likely to be only for the Chinese market, as has been the case for the company's flagships for a few years now. The Xiaomi 14 only made its international debut this February at MWC.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 allegedly reaches a single-core score of around 2,700 and a multi-core score of about 10,000 in Geekbench, according to Digital Chat Station. Its CPU is said to sport two extra large cores that will be clocked at 3.6 to 4 GHz. The leaker tells us to expect relatively large theoretical performance improvements on both the CPU and the GPU side.