Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform in December 2021. The Xiaomi Mi 11 5G debuted in the same month as the world’s first phone with an SD888 chip onboard. Fresh information reveals that the company could be working on an enhanced version of the chip that may debut with the Snapdragon 888+ moniker. The new chip has appeared on the Geekbench benchmarking platform (via. Abhishek Yadav) with some of its key specs.
The Snapdragon 888 mobile platform’s codename is Lahaina. The new chipset that has appeared on the benchmarking platform has the same codename, which indicates that it is a new variant of the SD888. It includes four low-power cores working at 1.80GHz, three Cortex-A78 clusters working at 2.42GHz, and lastly, there is a performance core that offers clocking speeds of 3.0GHz.
In comparison, the SD 888 offers a 2.84GHz performance core. Hence, it appears that the new chip may debut in the market as Snapdragon 888+ or Snapdragon 888 Pro and it will be arriving as an enhanced version of the existing SD888 chip.
The testing device which has appeared on the benchmarking site with the SD888+ chip has 6 GB of RAM and Android 11 OS. In the single-core and multi-core tests of Geekbench, the handset scored 1171 and 3704 points, respectively.
In related news, a recent Weibo post by the popular Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station suggests Qualcomm may three variants of the SD888 such as Snapdragon 888 4G, Snapdragon 888 Wi-Fi, and Snapdragon 888 Pro. Probably, some of the flagship phones arriving in the second half of this year could be equipped with the SD888 Pro chip.
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