14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, we told you about the upcoming HTC Aero, which according to the rumor mill will be a new flagship device coming out of HTC during Q4 of the current year.
And if we’re to believe the rumors, the Aero might be one of the first smartphones to arrive with Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 820 under the hood. The specs of the chipset have leaked online a while ago, suggesting that the silicone piece might actually be a quad-core model.
Today, a new report coming out of Mobile Dad adds more details to the story.
Back at MWC 2015 in Barcelona, Qualcomm took the opportunity to tease the successor of the Snapdragon 810 saying that the SoC would take advantage of its own custom-designed 64-bit CPU cores dubbed Kyro. Well, according to the latest information we have on the topic, the Snapdragon 820’s Kyro CPU cores will be clocked at up to 3.0GHz.
On top of that, we get the confirmation that Samsung will indeed be the manufacturer of the new chipset, using its own 14nm node manufacturing technology.
Snapdragon 820 poised to solve the thermal issues of the Snapdragon 810
The report goes on to say that companies such as Sony and Xiaomi are also looking to integrate the Snapdragon 820 into their handsets. We’ve already seen rumors prophesizing that the upcoming Mi5 and Mi5 Pro will be powered by this particular chipset.
We’ve also told you that LG is prepping a ramped-up version of its current flagship, called the G4 Pro, which should bundle the same Snapdragon 820.
There’s no information related to a Sony device drawing fuel from a Snapdragon 820, but considering the overheating issues the current Xperia Z3+ has been plagued with since before its official release, Sony needs a functioning high-end device fast.
But the real question here is whether the Snapdragon 820 will manage to solve the issues of the Snapdragon 810 or not. One thing’s for sure, though: given that the chipset is rumored to be manufactured using Samsung’s own 14nm node process, which was used to develop the powerful Exynos 7420 chip fueling the Galaxy S6 series, we expect things to be better.