In this year's global chip competition, there is no doubt that Huawei's Kirin platform is at the forefront. At present, they have confirmed that Kirin 980 will be officially released at the IFA in Berlin on August 31, announcing the first entry into the 7nm process era. Similarly, At the Apple conference in September, Apple will continue to bring the newly upgraded A12 processor. Although it has been repeatedly questioned about toothpaste, its performance has indeed improved.
Today, the Android chip maker Qualcomm also gave the schedule for the second half of the year. The newly upgraded Snapdragon 855 (also known as the 骁龙8150) will also adopt the 7nm process. In addition, Qualcomm also claims that the new platform has been sampled. Customers, can be plugged with 5G baseband, related equipment is under development.
Previously, there was an exposure that the Xiaolong 855 had already been put into mass production as early as early June, but the latest news shows that the Xiaolong 855 was probably only a trial production at that time, because TSMC will not start mass production in the fourth quarter of this year. Dragon 855.
This is also in line with the practice of Qualcomm's flagship platform. It is released at the end of each year. At the end of February of the following year, it will be launched by Samsung's new Galaxy S. It will be Xiaomi, but Lenovo is also expected to start this year.
According to another report, the Snapdragon 855 will integrate the NPU neural network unit like the Apple A11 and Huawei Kirin 970 to support AI artificial intelligence acceleration.
Although Qualcomm has not disclosed more details about Snapdragon 855, it is certain that the Snapdragon 855 will be officially mass-produced at the end of the year. Is the mobile phone of the first Snapdragon 855 still a new Samsung Galaxy S? Said that Lenovo has already grabbed the Qualcomm's starting rights? It is still unknown.
