Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 Cores Exposure
According to Qualcomm’s practice, a new generation of mobile flagship platforms will be released before the end of the year, to be used in next year’s Android flagship phones. Previously, it was revealed that Qualcomm is developing an SM8450 chip, which will be the real iteration of the Snapdragon 888 update, codenamed Waipio and tentatively named as Snapdragon 895.
According to the Ice Universe, Qualcomm’s next flagship SoC will be called Snapdragon 898, previously, it was called SM8450, and as we get closer to the end of 2021, more details have emerged. Snapdragon 898 using Samsung’s 4nm process to build the CPU based on the new Cortex-v9 Kryo 780, including Cortex-X2 large cores, and the frequency increased to 3.09GHz.
In addition to the X2 large core, Snapdragon 898 CPU may also have three Cortex-A710 + two Cortex-A510 (high frequency) + two Cortex-A510 (low frequency) composition. Here contains a doubt, Qualcomm for the past two years has been 1 + 3 + 4 architecture, while the above news said 1 + 3 + 2 + 2, so the authenticity is yet to be verified.
Ice Universe claims to have seen these clock frequencies, suggesting that the Snapdragon 898 may be a sample tested on a prototype smartphone to see how high a CPU frequency the manufacturer can reach before putting the brakes on it to prevent temperatures from reaching high levels.
- One Kryo 780 core based on Cortex-X2
- Three Cortex-A710-based Kryo 780 cores
- Two Cortex-A510-based Kryo 780 cores
- Two Cortex-A510-based Kryo 780 cores
There is also news that Qualcomm may change the planning of the Plus version in the second half of the year, no longer just to increase the CPU frequency, but to convert to the TSMC 4nm process. Qualcomm could officially launch the Snapdragon 898 chip this December, with the first flagship smartphone also expected to debut in 2021.