There’s been a lot of hot air around the Snapdragon 810 and its overheating issues, with some manufacturers dropping it altogether, other handset makers preferring to use a lower spec (read cooler) version and then you get companies such as Sony who have stuck with the processor through thick and thin. As for the 810’s manufacturer, Qualcomm, it has been busy fending off accusations left, right and centre, its share price has dipped and investors have mentioned splitting the company apart. There could be some good news on the horizon, though, if a comment made on Chinese social media site Weibo, is anything to go by.
Kevin King is a research director at IHS Technology China and he has posted on his Weibo account that the combination of 4 custom kernels with the 14nm manufacturing process means that the Snapdragon 820 is free of overheating problems. This falls in line with other claims that the 820 is a cooler processor than the 810.
It’s unlikely that we will see the Snapdragon 820 being released before December 2015 with one of the first likely recipients being Xiaomi’s Mi5 flagship. Regardless of whether the launch is delayed or not, Qualcomm needs the Snapdragon 820 to be a solid release, without the negative publicity that the 810 received, rightly or wrongly.
Source: Kevin King (Weibo)
Via: GizmoChina
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