There are still several months to go until the year ends and Qualcomm officially announces its next generation of high-end mobile processors . However, this has not stopped new leaks from reputable media from revealing the details of the upcoming Snapdragon 898 .

Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 would be the official name of the next “Premium” chipset that the manufacturer debuts for the first phones of 2022 and the user Ice Universe has confirmed its internal model name SM8450 as well as the main conformation of its cores and speed .

First details on Snapdragon 898: This would be the specifications of the next Snapdragon 898

Snapdragon 898 will make use of a new architecture

Countering the previous information that indicated that the next generation would be called Qualcomm Snapdragon 895 , this time it has been indicated that the processor would be made up of a total of eight cores distributed in a main Cortex X2 core (Kryo 780), another three performance cores Cortex A710 and finally the remaining four Cortex A510 oriented to efficiency tasks.

In this way, the most striking thing and that would be the great novelty compared to the previous processor is its main Cortex X2 core running at a maximum speed of 3.09 GHz, that is, an increase in frequency of approximately 16% compared to the X1 . It is worth noting that the chip will be based on the new ARMv9 architecture.

It is also indicated that the Snapdragon 898 would achieve an overall higher energy efficiency of around 30% and that its manufacture would use Samsung’s 4-nanometer 4LPE process. Then, at the end of next year, a Snapdragon 898+ version is already planned that would use the 4nm process of the TSMC competition.

To conclude, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 chipset can be expected to also employ an Adreno 730 GPU, an X65 5G modem (the first 10Gbps), as well as an improved ISP and NPU. All positive specifications and that seem to be enough improvements to put aside the current model 888 as the most requested model on the market.