Details leak about Qualcomm’s Next-Gen Processor, the Snapdragon 815

While the current generation of smartphones, with the exception of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, are using the Snapdragon 810 processor in their flagship devices, that doesn’t mean that Qualcomm are standing on their laurels. Instead, the chip maker is already concentrating on its next top end CPU, the Snapdragon 815 according to an unnamed source.

What we know about the Snapdragon 815:

• Quad Cortex A72 + Quad Cortex A53 (Cores may be tweaked by Qualcomm)
• Next Gen Qualcomm Adreno GPU
• FinFet Manufacturing process

So the Snapdragon 815 will use the big.LITTLE configuration as seen on the Snapdragon 620 chip and may be manufactured using the new 16nm FinFet* process. According GizmoChina’s unnamed source, Qualcomm are delaying the release of the Snapdragon 815 so it doesn’t adversely impact on the recently released flagships powered by the current 810 chip. The way that these releases go, one would expect the Snapdragon 815 in the second half of 2015.

*FinFet is a type of 3D transistor used in the design of modern processors using a conducting channel that rises above the level of the insulator to create a thin silicon structure called a gate electrode. This gate electrode is shaped like a fin, hence the FinFet name. 

Source: GizmoChina

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