A few hours from now, Qualcomm will be hosting the annual Snapdragon Summit 2020 to announce its next-generation flagship Snapdragon chipset for smartphones. The new silicon, which will be the successor to the Snapdragon 865, is expected to be based on a 5nm process. Now, ahead of its official unveiling, realme execs tease a new device powered by this chipset.
Qualcomm is the leading player in the global application processor market. All the Android smartphone OEMs use the American chipmaker’s Snapdragon 800 series chipset for their flagship devices.
The Sand Diego-based company usually announces its flagship processor in December at the Snapdragon Summit event, which takes place in Hawaii. But this year, due to the pandemic, the chipmaker will be organizing a virtual (online) event.
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That said, according to an official press release by Qualcomm, executives from Sony ‘Mobile Communications Inc., OnePlus, and Xiaomi will be one of the many speakers. Sony’s Mitsuya Kishida and OnePlus’ Kyle Kiang are said to talk about mobile gaming. On the other hand, Xiaomi’s Lei Jun will share a ‘product update’, which is expected to be Mi 11 series.
But now, out of nowhere, realme China’s Xu Qi Chase and Madhav Sheth of realme India/Europe also tease a smartphone powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 800 series chipset. Their social media posts read a cryptic message ‘8_ _’.
For those unaware, up until a few hours ago, the next-gen Qualcomm flagship chipset was thought to be called Snapdragon 875. But now, multiple people from the industry are teasing it to feature a different branding. Most of the teasers reveal it to be called Snapdragon 888. Anyway, we will know more about this SoC very soon.
As for realme, their first Snapdragon 888 smartphone should be an X series device or the rumored Ace series phone.
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