Qualcomm may follow up its 7nm modem with a 7nm chipset: the Snapdragon 855

15 February 2018
The company did not say whether it's TSMC or Samsung that is fabbing the 7nm modems.

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AnonD-708551, 15 Feb 2018So we shouldn't buy 845 then coz the 855 will destroy it li... moreLol, 835 destroyed 820? Do u even know what u r talking abt? 835 did nothing to 820 apart from add 4 low power cores that in 90% of the cases makes no difference. While the single core performance remained exactly the same and GPU was only marginally better...

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    Anonymous, 15 Feb 2018So you're saying that with sd855 we could charge our phones... moreNope. It's either a performance gain or the efficiency gain. Most makers will choose performance gain so u end up with same efficiency as current processors.

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      • 15 Feb 2018

      snapdragon 835 don't have neural unit and here you can clearly see that kirin has more than 30 fps in ai test and iphone has less than half of that
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnRyheXHHY4

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        • 15 Feb 2018

        So you're saying that with sd855 we could charge our phones once for 2 days.

          can skip the same 10nm process 845 chip
          look forward to the real technologically advanced 7nm 855chip in 2019

            Wow 855 seems like a huge upgrade unlike 84t

              Akorn Farmer, 15 Feb 2018Coming of 7nm Snapdragon 855 is surely predictable event. T... moreSpectre and Meltdown have to be fixed, and that may take longer. I plan to stick with my existing stuff until that happens.

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                • 15 Feb 2018

                38% thats realy a lot

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                  • 15 Feb 2018

                  AnonD-434295, 15 Feb 2018Qualcomm become more like intel nowaday. They really need c... moremore competition? There's exynos, huawey's kirin, Apple's A11 Bionic... There's a lot of competition.
                  If qualcomm didn't had all the competition we would be stuck with an old 32nm architecture.
                  If that would be the case, people would target huawey's kirin or samsung Exynoss making these companies even more richer.
                  Qualcomm has competition enough, in contrary Intel didn't had a competitor for years. Just these last 2 years AMD has been showing "some" competition but INTEL is still alone

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                    • 15 Feb 2018

                    Anonymous, 15 Feb 2018 tells people to stop spreading false info while spreading ... more ^_^

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                      • 15 Feb 2018

                      Ajax Francis , 15 Feb 2018I wonder what is next after 1 nanometer. 0,5 nm

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                        AnonD-708551, 15 Feb 2018So we shouldn't buy 845 then coz the 855 will destroy it li... moreYou forgot"And so on" :D

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                          • 15 Feb 2018

                          Akorn Farmer, 15 Feb 2018Coming of 7nm Snapdragon 855 is surely predictable event. T... moreYep... Next year... New phones with new processors have come at the Q2 quite regularly.

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                            • 15 Feb 2018

                            skip 855 , straight to 860 or 900

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                              • 15 Feb 2018

                              AnonD-708551, 15 Feb 2018So we shouldn't buy 845 then coz the 855 will destroy it li... moreThen you'll never end up getting or at that route

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                                Anonymous, 15 Feb 20181) Kirin 970 is slower than SD835 and not on par with SD835... more tells people to stop spreading false info while spreading false info. Priceless

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                                  • 15 Feb 2018

                                  AnonD-646541, 15 Feb 2018I think Huawei make really decent chipsets with as good per... more1) Kirin 970 is slower than SD835 and not on par with SD835 in speed
                                  2) Kirin 970's neural unit isn't 2 times faster than a11, it is only a bit faster, not a lot difference. It is much faster than SD835 in terms of neural unit.

                                  Stop spreading false information please.

                                    Coming of 7nm Snapdragon 855 is surely predictable event. The question is when. When will we see the next gen phone using the coming SD855 AP chip? March or April next year, then it is just business as usual. Not much thing to talk about. The SD855 chip will be announced on November or December this year.

                                    But what if the next gen phone comes out this year, like November THIS YEAR or even October? To do so, SD 855 AP chip should be announced officially on July or September this year. I bet on this will be the case.

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                                      • 15 Feb 2018

                                      I think Huawei make really decent chipsets with as good performance as snapdragon and also with neural unit which is actually two times faster than apple's neural unit in a11 bionic.

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                                        • 15 Feb 2018

                                        So we shouldn't buy 845 then coz the 855 will destroy it like when 835 did that to 820.

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