Most of the flagship phones in 2017 were launched with Snapdragon 835 chipset onboard. Some of the upper mid-range phones that were launched this year were powered by Snapdragon 660. The Snapdragon 845 that was officially unveiled recently as its successor will be powering the flagship smartphones arriving in 2018. A report that was published few months ago revealed that Qualcomm is working on Snapdragon 670 chipset as the successor of SD 660. In the previous week, well-known tipster Roland Quant had revealed some of the key specs of the SD 670 to reaffirm the existence of the chipset.

Quandt claims that the U.S. based chip maker is currently testing the Snapdragon 670 chipset on a prototype device. His tweet reveals that the upcoming chipset supports WQHD resolution. In other words, the chipset is able to support a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. It can support 64 GB of eMMC 5.1 storage, 6 GB of DDR4X RAM, a rear camera of 22.6-megapixel and a front-facing camera of 13-megapixel.

 
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Previous leaks have revealed that the Snapdragon 670 chipset will be built with 10nm LPP (Low Power Plus) manufacturing technology by Samsung. It is speculated to feature two high-performing Kryo 360 cores along with six low-power Kryo cores and it also rumored to house a new 600 series Adreno graphics. The mass production of the Snapdragon 670 chipset is rumored to start in the first quarter of 2018.

The Snapdragon 660 is also a very potent chipset after the Snapdragon 835. However, only few smartphones featuring the SD660 chipset were launched this year such as OPPO R11/R11s, R11/R11s Plus, Xiaomi Mi Note 3, Vivo X20, ASUS ZenFone 4, Smartisan Nuts Pro 2, Sharp Aquos S2, 360 N6 Pro and Elephone S9. The market may see few more Snapdragon 660 chipset phones in the coming months before the arrival of Snapdragon 670 driven phones in the latter half of 2018.

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There are very few smartphones that are currently using Snapdragon 660 processor, like the OPPO R11. But that shouldn’t take away the importance of this chipset, given that it is reportedly cheaper than the Snapdragon 835 but quite powerful and comparable to other high-end chipsets. We will surely see more phones with SD660 in the coming months, but rumors about its successor, the Snapdragon 670 are already out.

The new Snapdragon 670 chip is said to take things to a new level by using an even better 10nm LPP (Low Power Plus) manufacturing process from Samsung. Note that the current gen. SoCs like SD835 use LPE (Low Power Early) which is the predecessor to the LPP process. So, the new  10nm LPP node should improve performance as well as the efficiency of the chipsets.

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The processor will have eight Kryo cores, which will be the third generation Kryo 360. These cores will use the new DynamIQ architecture, which is the successor to the ever popular big.LITTLE architecture from ARM. You can read more about the benefits and features of the next generation DynamIQ architecture from here. The chip is said to use two high-power Kryo 360 cores and six low power Kryo cores. Finally, SD670 is also said to use a new 600 series Adreno GPU.

According to this leak, you can expect the Snapdragon 670 to go into mass production in Q1 2018.

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