The Qualcomm Snapdragon 815, which was reported about earlier as the replacement SoC for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, has turned out to be just a rumour. Qualcomm’s Senior Director of Public Relations Jon Carvill said, “There are no plans for a Snapdragon 815 processor.”
It had been rumoured that the Snapdragon 815 was supposed to be made using a 20nm and a FinFET manufacturing process. It was supposed to comprise of quad A-72 cores and quad A-52 cores in a big.LITTLE architecture, an Adreno 450 GPU, LPDDR4 memory support, and a MDM9x55 modem with CAT 10 LTE capabilities..
Qualcomm has clarified that the next in line flagship SoC is the Snapdragon 820 which will begin sampling in the second half of this year. The Snapdragon 820, which was announced at MWC, is based on Qualcomm’s Zeroth platform. The new Zeroth platform will lay the foundation for on device cognitive capabilities like visual perception, audio and sound recognition, always-on awareness, intelligent connectivity, immersive multimedia, natural device interactions and intuitive security.
Devices featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC are expected to ship in early 2016 but before that Snapdragon 810 will remain Qualcomm’s flagship SoC of the year.
Source: Fudzilla