Qualcomm’s much-awaited Tech Summit has been scheduled for November 30 and is set to lift the curtains on this year’s flagship processor – Snapdragon 898. Except there’s a catch. There are rumors doing rounds that the latest chip will not be called Snapdragon 898 at all, with Qualcomm changing the naming scheme and going for “Snapdragon 8 Gen1” instead, as the new name.
The info comes from a well-known tech blogger (via My Drivers) who has implied that the familiar triple-digit naming convention will be coming to an end.
Still, based on the info from the blogger, the flagship chip from Qualcomm will be retaining the ‘8’ from its older moniker, which should be enough to convey its flagship status. For those unaware, Snapdragon 8 series chips have always been the top of the line and have mostly been limited to high-end smartphones.
Coming to the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 itself, or whatever you want to call it ahead of its launch, it is said to offer a 20 percent performance improvement over its predecessor. It will be featuring a prime ARM Cortex-X2 CPU core running at 3.0GHz, three Cortex-A710 based mid-cores clocked at 2.5GHz and four efficient Cortex-A510 derived cores running at 1.79GHz.
Paired with the CPU will be the Snapdragon X65 5G modem which can theoretically offer a maximum downlink speed of 10Gbps. The graphics bit will be handled by an integrated Adreno 730 GPU.
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