Qualcomm is already working on the Snapdragon 818 which is expected to succeed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. The company didn’t quite hit the heights it expected with the Snapdragon 810 SoC and the high profiled over heating issue didn’t see the chipset gain worldwide traction.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 818 is a 10-core (Deca-core) processor which would have the new Adreno 532 GPU and supports LTE Cat.10 connectivity. The SD818 is expected to have a 10 core processor which has 4 Low power Cortex A53 cores @ 1.2Ghz, 2 Mid power Cortex A53 cores at 1.6GHz and 4 High power Cortex A72 cores at 2.0GHZ.
It would reportedly be built on a 20nm process and will also come with the GPU and LTE connectivity support mentioned above and LPDDR4 RAM.
Some weeks ago, MediaTek announced the MediaTek MT6797 Helio X20 processor which also uses 10-cores; the cores are however arranged differently – 4 Cortex A53 @ 1.4GHz, 4 Cortex A53 @ 2.0GHz and 2 Cortex A72 @ 2.3-2.5GHz. It also has 4-core Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, LPDDR3 RAM and LTE Cat.6 modem.
If all goes as planned, we will soon be seeing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 818 and MediaTek’s MT6797 Helio X20 both go head-to-head on various Benchmark websites and also smartphones powered by each chipset would be pput through its paces to determine who is better (but not hotter).
It is still early days for 10-core processors but the days of Single-Cores, Dual-cores, Quad-cores, Hexa-cores and Octa-cores wold soon be looking old-fashioned. With technology, it only gets better.
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