Jakarta, Selular.ID – ZTE is rumored to be competing with Motorola and Xiaomi to be the first to bring the latest premium Snapdragon chips in their phones. According to a new leak, ZTE is looking to provide new cutting-edge processors for the three upcoming phones. It supposedly comes from the company’s game-oriented Nubia series. Leaks suggest two of them will have model numbers NX679J and NX709J.
Snapdragon recently confirmed they are starting to use a new naming scheme for their processors. The Snapdragon 898 chip, which is the successor to the current 888 and 888+ processors, will actually be called Snapdragon 8 Gen1. Qualcomm says the name of its new chip will contain a “single-digit serial and generation number”.
According to tipster Digital Chat Station, as reported by TheMobileHunt, Motorola and Xiaomi are competing to be the brands that will release the first smartphone with the new Qualcomm silicon. Motorola allegedly wants to launch a smartphone with a new Snapdragon 8 Gen1 processor before the end of 2021.
But the leaker also says the Lenovo-owned company will not succeed in its endeavor, and Xiaomi will overtake Motorola and release smartphones with new chips first. According to rumors, the smartphone in question is the Xiaomi 12.
There’s no word on what Motorola’s Snapdragon 8 Gen1 powered phone will be called. Reports suggest that the company is planning to release a Motorola Edge 30 Pro phone powered by the new Snapdragon processor. This means that the rumored Edge 30 Ultra could be the phone that will compete with the Xiaomi 12 to be the first with the new Qualcomm chip.
Romance, Xiaomi will be the first manufacturer to use the chip. Samsung is rumored to be using a new Snapdragon chip for its upcoming Galaxy S22 lineup as well. The new phones from the S22 series are slated for release in early 2022.
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