The next generation of high-end Android smartphones will be primarily powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 898 processor. This is the chipset that will replace the current Snapdragon 888 (and SD888 +), which now has an official release date.
The news has now been revealed by North American Qualcomm through its website. There, on the company’s official website, we see the confirmation of the usual annual product launch event, the Snapdragon Tech Summit.
The Snapdragon Tech Summit is from November 30 to December 2.
It should be noted that the specific date of presentation of the new processor was not specified. However, it is expected that it is during this event that the technology unveils its next high-end processor for mobile devices.
In fact, considering the history of the company, the announcement of the Snapdragon 898 will likely be the point of the entire event. Thus, in a similar way to what we have seen in previous editions, we have this presentation right at the beginning of the summit.
We also know, according to unofficial sources, that this chip will indeed be one of the most celebrated points of the presentation event. It will be, for the entire industry. mobile, the beginning of a new era that will guide much of 2022.
Xiaomi, OPPO, Motorola, ASUS, Lenovo, Nubia, ZTE will use the Snapdragon 898
The list of manufacturers will be considerably longer. However, we already have several brand confirmations that will use this mobile device. Among these we can now confirm Xiaomi, Honor, Vivo, Samsung, Motorola, Oppo, Huawei, ZTE, Asus, Black Shark, Lenovo, Nubia, Realme, OnePlus, Sharp, among others.
In fact, during the next few days we will see a competition between Chinese manufacturers to first launch a phone with this chip. We remember, by the way, that in 2020 this title belonged to Xiaomi and its Xiaomi Mi 11.
In 2021, once again, we have Xiaomi on the list of top candidates for this possibility. In fact, we have the new Xiaomi 12 smartphones to be among the first, if not the first, to integrate these new processors.
The top processor for 2022 will be the Snapdragon 898
Naturally high, expectations point to a processor built with 4nm lithography, a process developed by Samsung. Apparently it will follow the 1 + 3 + 4 core configuration (configuration of bunches).
First it will have a “super” Cortex X2 3GHz cores, with Adreno 730 graphics and the X65 modem capable of download speeds of up to 10GB / s.
Ultimately, the overall performance of the Snapdragon 898 is expected to be 20% higher than the current Snapdragon 888.