Qualcomm Likely to Unveil Snapdragon 898 SoC on 30th November
Nov. 8, 2021Qualcomm recentlyupdated its websitewith the official dates for the Snapdragon Tech Summit, scheduled to start on November 30. The event will last three days, concluding on December 2, and we expect the company to unveil the Snapdragon 898 chipset at the event.
According to recent reports, there is competition between various smartphone makers, including OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Lenovo, Realme, and other companies, to be in the first batch to acquire the upcoming SD 898 chipset. However, as the Geekbench listing earlier showed the chipset inside a Vivo prototype device, we canexpectVivo to be one of the first companies to launch a smartphone with Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset.
Now, coming to the specifics, not much is known about the Snapdragon 898 SoC as of now. However,as per earlier reports, SD 898 willfeature the new Cortex X2 coreclocked at 3.09GHz. For reference, the Cortex X1 core in Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ is clocked at 2.95GHz. Plus, the X2 core is expected to deliver a 16% improvement in performance than its predecessor, as per ARM’s announcement earlier this year.
As for the core structure, the chipset will follow a 1+3+4 configuration, including the single Cortex X2 core clocked 2.42GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores at 2.17GHz, and four Cortex-A510 cores clocked at 1.79GHz. Furthermore, the Snapdragon 898 will reportedly use Samsung’s 4nm manufacturing process. We can also expect it to feature the Adreno 730 GPU and thenew Snapdragon X65 5G modem.
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