Oryon
Oryon is an 8 to 12-core CPU implementing the ARMv8.7-A architecture featuring a custom microarchitecture designed by Qualcomm. It is used on the Snapdragon X Plus, Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite systems on chips, first released in June 2024.
It began development in 2021 when was acquired by Qualcomm.
It is the first custom microarchitecture for smartphone SoCs released by Qualcomm since the original Kryo.
Models
1st generation
Development of the first generation of Oryon started in 2021 under Nuvia. This generation consists of Snapdragon X-series chips that are targeted at laptops.| Branding | Model number | Core count | Total cache | Max multithread frequency | Boost frequency | Memory type | Release |
| X Elite | X1E-00-1DE | 12 | 42 MB | 3.8 GHz | 4.3 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Elite | X1E-84-100 | 12 | 42 MB | 3.8 GHz | 4.2 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Elite | X1E-80-100 | 12 | 42 MB | 3.4 GHz | 4.0 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Elite | X1E-78-100 | 12 | 42 MB | 3.4 GHz | – | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Plus | X1P-66-100 | 10 | 42 MB | 3.4 GHz | 4.0 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Plus | X1P-64-100 | 10 | 42 MB | 3.4 GHz | – | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Plus | X1P-46-100 | 8 | 30 MB | 3.4 GHz | 4.0 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X Plus | X1P-42-100 | 8 | 30 MB | 3.2 GHz | 3.4 GHz | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q2 2024 |
| X | X1-26-100 | 8 | 30 MB | 3.0 GHz | - | LPDDR5x-8448 | Q1 2025 |
2nd generation
The second generation consists only of Snapdragon 8-series chips targeted at smartphones and tablets.| Branding | Model number | Core count | Total cache | Max multithread frequency | Boost frequency | Memory type | Release |
| 8 Elite for Galaxy | SM8750-AC | 2 + 6 | 32MB | 3.53GHz | 4.47GHz | LPDDR5x-10600 | Q1 2025 |
| 8 Elite | SM8750-AB | 2 + 6 | 32MB | 3.5GHz | 4.32GHz | LPDDR5x-10600 | Q4 2024 |
| 8 Elite | SM8750-3-AB | 2 + 5 | 32MB | 3.5GHz | 4.32GHz | LPDDR5x-10600 | Q1 2025 |