U.S fabless semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm held the 2020 edition of the Snapdragon Summit today. The company during the event unveiled the Snapdragon 888, its next-gen flagship mobile platform. While it did provide a list of OEMs that would utilize the chipset on their phones next year, Qualcomm didn’t indicate the model we’ll be seeing with an SD888 SoC. However, Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun has disclosed via a Weibo post that the Mi 11 will be the first model to launch with a Snapdragon 888.
The 5nm Snapdragon 888 teams up with the 3rd generation Qualcomm Snapdragon X60 5G modem which enables global compatibility as it offers mmWave and sub-6 across all major bands worldwide. The modem also supports 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM, standalone, non-standalone, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.
Further, the SDM888 flagship processor also comes with the new 6th-gen AI Engine. The hexagon processor brings a considerable leap in AI performance, 26 tera operations per second (TOPS) compared to the last generation. It also comes with a 2nd generation Qualcomm Sensing Hub which “incorporates low-power always-on AI processing for intuitive intelligent features.”
Apart from Xiaomi with the Mi 11, other brands such as Black Shark, Nubia RedMagic, OPPO Find X series, Realme, LG, Vivo, and iQOO as well as OnePlus are expected to launch models with Snapdragon 888 in the first half of 2021.
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