At the 2020 Snapdragon Technology Summit 2020 held yesterday, Qualcomm officially unveiled the latest Snapdragon 888 mobile platform built on TSMC’s 5nm process. The processor will power the next generation of flagship smartphones. The processor equally provides a fully integrated 5G modem.
Xiaomi‘s CEO Lei Jun did confirm that the brand will be the first to launch a Snapdragon 888-powered model which will be the Mi 11 expected in January 2021. Vivo also indicated that it will release a flagship with the new chipset in the first half of 2021.
The Vivo model powered by the Snapdragon 888 chipset has been spotted on the GeekBench database. The model appears with the model number Vivo V2056A and is powered by the Snapdragon 888 SoC listed with its codename Lahaina.
The device runs on Android 11 which will definitely have an overlay of Vivo’s custom OriginOS which is the only version running on Android 11. The device will also have 11GB of RAM.
The Snapdragon 888-powered Vivo phone is the first device to appear on benchmark database. As for the benchmark score, the Snapdragon 888 Vivo device has a single-core test score of 1135 points and a multi-core score of 3681 points. This is currently the highest score among the leaked engineering machines. The score almost doubles those of the Snapdragon 865-powered model both on the single and multi-core tests. 
At the Snapdragon Technology Summit, Vivo Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Hu Baishan stated: “The vivo brand and the iQOO brand will soon launch mobile phones equipped with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform. With the blessing of Snapdragon 888, the flagship products of vivo and iQOO will also bring consumers better image and photography capabilities, a more powerful gaming experience, as well as high-speed and convenient 5G connections and more intelligent functions.”
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