Qualcomm has scheduled its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit to hold from December 3 to December 5. The event will again hold in Maui County in the US State of Hawaii. The tech giant is expected to unveil its next-generation technologies, including the next-gen Snapdragon 865 that would feature on flagship smartphones next year. This douses speculations that the chipset could be launched this November.
The Snapdragon 865 will no doubt be the star of the event. As for the name, it was earlier confirmed when Chinese luxury brand 8848 unveiled its upcoming Titanium M6 5G handset expected to hit the market next year. The Snapdragon 865 will be the successor of the present Snapdragon 855 which was announced at the event last year and presently grace flagship models released this year.
Quite surprisingly, Qualcomm has kept details of the SD 865 a closely guarded secret but the SoC is said to have appeared on GeekBench earlier in August. We expect the chipset to come with a version integrated with a 5G modem. The tech giant may equally announce 5G-integrated chipsets for mid-range phones that would be released in 2020 as well. An earlier leak by tipster Roland Quandt says the next-gen flagship chipset has the model number SM8250. He also disclosed that the chipset will come in two variants that go by the codenames- Kona and Huracan. Both variants will have support for LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 3.0 flash storage. It is expected to be built on TSMC’ 7nm FinFet process.
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Further, we expect the chipset to come with an updated Adreno GPU and new CPU cores, possibly based on the latest powerhouse Cortex-A75 part from Arm. Qualcomm also doubled down on image processing and machine learning capabilities last year, and these are likely to be areas of focus one again with the Snapdragon 865.
Apart from the Snapdragon 865, another product Qualcomm may unveil is an upgraded variant of the Snapdragon 8cx SoC, the company’s first dedicated laptop chip. The Snapdragon 8cx was first announced during the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018. The chipset brings enhanced CPU, GPU, and video processing capabilities. Also, a new Snapdragon Wear chip for smartwatches may also make the product catalogue for the event as well as a new audio product.
We’ll give you extensive coverage of the event here on Gizmochina when it kicks-off.
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