And now there is new information from one of the famous leakers on Weibo, namely Digital Chat Station where he mentions that presently several well-known smartphone manufacturers in China have started trying Qualcomm’s latest chipset, the SM8450.
“Top several domestic mobile phone manufacturers basically get SM8450 samples, the new iteration of progress may also be a little bit faster than last year,” wrote Digital Chat Station. Unfortunately, the name of this Snapdragon 888 successor chipset is not yet known. Many predict that the name of the chipset will be Snapdragon 888 Plus, judging from the previous Qualcomm chipset naming.
Snapdragon 888 successor’s rumoured features
In addition, it was also mentioned that Qualcomm’s new chipset will be made with a 4nm fabrication process and will come with improvements in terms of performance and power consumption. Previous leaks mentioned that this chipset will use the latest ARMv9 architecture with Kryo 780 cores and Adreno 730 GPU. The chipset will also come with an X65 5G modem and FastConnect 6900 with Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity and 6E WiFi. Let’s just wait for the official announcement and information from Qualcomm to know which smartphones will be the first to use the chipset!