Unless traditions change this year, Qualcomm will hold its annual Hawaiian summit in December to introduce the new Snapdragon for flagship smartphones in 2022. The upcoming chip will probably be named Snapdragon 898 and will again offer impressive parameters supported by a new manufacturing process. What will Qualcomm want to dazzle?
Qualcomm will go into direct combat with MediaTek and Samsung
According to the usually accurate informant DigitalChatStation Snapdragon 898 will be prepared with a really powerful chipset. Its processor unit is to consist of three clusters in the traditional 1 + 3 + 4 combination. The main core is to be Cortex-X2 with a frequency of 3 GHz, followed by three powerful cores with a clock speed of 2.5 GHz and four energy-saving cores clocked at 1.79 GHz. . The graphics operations should be in charge of the Adreno 730 GPU chip, the whole should be produced by a 4nm process in Samsung’s factories. In addition, the Korean giant will not only produce Snapdragon 898, but also own Exynos 2200 chipset, which will include a graphics chip from AMD with ray tracing support.
TSMC 4nm, 1*3.0GHz X2 super large core+3*2.85GHz large core+4*1.8GHz small core, Mali-G710 MC10 GPU
— Digital Chat Station (@chat_station) October 20, 2021
The MediaTek Dimensity 2000 chipset will also go into direct combat with the Snapdragon 898 and Exynos 2200. It is also to be manufactured using the 4nm process, but at the Taiwanese company TSMC. The processor is to be composed very similarly – one super-powerful Cortex-X2 core with a clock speed of 3 GHz, three powerful cores with a clock speed of 2.85 GHz and finally four energy-saving cores with a frequency of 1.8 GHz. The Mali-G710 MC10 chip will carry the graphic part on its shoulders.
We can expect high performance in the field of artificial intelligence for all three opponents, as well as network support 5G and more modern processors for image processing from photoelectric sensors.
Next year’s flagship smartphones will definitely have something to lean on, but we’ll see how factories chase to make new chips; it is expected that the current semiconductor crisis will continue at least next year.
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