Qualcomm surprised us by introducing the SD 888 as the successor of Snapdragon 865, instead of SD 875. The next flagship processor will arrive as Snapdragon 895 but a recent report says that will not be the case. Instead, Qualcomm will introduce its next processor as Snapdragon 898.
The leak was given by a famous Chinese leakster, IceUniverse, who said on Weibo that the next-gen flagship chipset by Qualcomm will be called Snapdragon 898.
He also said that the prime core is expected to be based on Cortex-X2, which will be clocked at 3.09GHz.
It will be a 4nm chipset that will be manufactured by Samsung. The new chipset’s higher clock plus variant is expected to arrive in mid-2022. It 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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