Earlier this month, Qualcomm had announced its latest flagship grade processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. While the Xiaomi 12 series is set to be among the early adopters, a new report has suggested that the company is also working on another device that will feature this new SoC as well.
According to @数码闲聊站 on Weibo (a Chinese microblogging website), the brand has began the trial production for the MIX 5 series. While initially it was rumored that the model could sport the higher end Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus chip, the latest leak from Chinese tipster states otherwise. Furthermore, the leak also revealed that the company’s MIX 5 lineup will also still feature the Samsung variant of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
For those unaware, we had previously reported on Qualcomm moving a part of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip production from Samsung to TSMC. The reasons for this were production issues which forced the chipmaker to turn to the Taiwanese semiconductor giant. So, the TSMC version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was expected to launch in the second half of next year.
However, since the tipster had previously mentioned that the MIX 5 series will be launching sometime between June and July, it makes sense that it will likely still feature the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC manufactured by Samsung. Unfortunately, finer details about this upcoming high end devices is still currently unknown, but it is likely to feature cutting edge smartphone technology. So stay tuned for more updates.
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