Qualcomm surprised us last year when it announced the successor to the Snapdragon 865 as the Snapdragon 888 instead of the Snapdragon 875. There have been reports that the next-gen chipset will arrive as the Snapdragon 895 but a new report says that won’t be the case. Instead, Qualcomm will announce it as the Snapdragon 898.

The source of the info is the renowned Chinese leaker, Ice Universe, who disclosed on Weibo that the chipset is called the Snapdragon 898. He also added that the prime core which is expected to be based on the new Cortex-X2 will be clocked at 3.09GHz. Arm announced the high-performance CPU core in May and it said it brings a 16% increase in performance over the Cortex-X1.

The Snapdragon 898 will be a 4nm chipset that will be manufactured by Samsung as reported earlier this month when it was still referred to as the Snapdragon 895. The higher-clocked plus variant expected to be released in mid-2022 will be manufactured by TSMC.

Qualcomm is also expected to go with a different CPU cluster from that of the Snapdragon 888. Instead of a 1+3+4 CPU cluster, a leak from a few weeks ago revealed that the Snapdragon 898 will have a 1+3+2+2 CPU cluster. This translates to: 1x Cortex-X2 prime core + 3x Cortex-A710 cores + 2x Cortex-A510 cores + 2x Cortex-A510 cores (at a lower clock speed).

The Snapdragon 898 or whatever it ends up being called should be announced in December.

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ARM has just announced the new Cortex-X2, A710, and A510 CPUs along with new Mali GPUs. These new processors arrive as the company seeks to shift to 64 bit only architecture by the year 2023. This also marks the company moving forward with the ARMv9 from the older ARMv8.

With the new architecture, the company is planning on moving to 64 bit exclusively by 2023. Furthermore, the firm will also be working with its partners to ensure that the new ecosystem is ready to also discontinue support for 32 bit apps, which it expects to complete by the end of this year. As per official notes, the new CPU and GPU designs will be featured in upcoming chipsets along with new support hardware to group them all together for various configurations that will be used from smartphones, laptops, smartphones, and other products as well.

The Cortex-X2 is the 2nd generation of the latest high performance ARM cores and promises a 16 percent speed boost over an X1 core, which was also built on the same node and ran on a similar frequency. While the new design has just been announced, chips that feature the Cortex-X2 are expected to hit the market by next year. Furthermore, ARM has also optimized the X2’s peak performance and has doubled its machine learning performance while its single threaded performance has also risen by about 40 percent compared to a 15W Intel i5-1135G7.

Similarly, the company also unveiled new designs for its big cores of the A series. Although, as the company has launched the new X core, the new A series has been moved to a more mid range position. However, the the A710 still manages to offer 10 percent improvement over the A78 (again on the same node and frequency) alongside 30 percent better energy efficiency. While this seems lackluster in comparison to the higher end design, the company adds that the A710 paired with the Mali-G710 GPU will see a 33 percent boost in CPU performance and 20 percent improvement in GPU performance in gaming workloads.

This chipset will also be 15 percent more efficient compared to the older A78 and G78 based chipsets, which implies a major generational improvement. Furthermore, the company also unveiled a new design for its little cores too, with the Cortex-A510 as well. It arrives with a 35 percent faster than the older A55 designs and offers about 20 percent better energy efficiency along with 3x machine learning performance as well. This makes it close in performance to the older big A cores, which is an improvement for mid range smartphones.

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