Manufactured on the 14nm FinFET technology

Nov 11, 2015 15:23 GMT  ·  By

As expected, chipset maker Qualcomm has officially announced its most powerful mobile chipset, the Snapdragon 820, which is manufactured on the 14nm FinFET technology.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipset will be used in more than a dozen flagship smartphones next year, the chipset maker has confirmed.

It comes with a 64-bit octa-core Kryo processor and an Adreno 530 graphics processing unit, one of the most powerful on the market.

These two components combined offer amazing performance and graphics improvements such as dynamic reflections, realistic color and lightning, temporal anti-aliasing and much more.

Qualcomm has also introduced the new LLV (Low Light Vision) technology, which is designed to offer the next level of image quality and performance with two outstanding benefits: adaptive brightness and noise reduction.

According to Qualcomm, LLV can compensate for HDR (high dynamic range) scene and motion artifacts that are usually caused by camera movement.

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The Snapdragon 820 integrates an X12 LTE modem. It also comes with premier features and capabilities leveraging the Qualcomm Zeroth platform.

The first smartphone that will include Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipset could the Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship.

However, there are many more devices that will most certainly pack this powerful processor, including the Xiaomi Mi5, HTC One M10, LG G5, and Oppo Find 9.

Since Qualcomm has officially introduced its most powerful mobile chipset to date, we expect many handset makers to announce which of their products will include the new Snapdragon 820 CPU.

“The Snapdragon 820 system-on-chip (SoC) represents a rare event in the engineering and design of semiconductors. Every major IP block in the system is a newly optimized custom design. The opportunity to take a fresh look at a processor to this magnitude is infrequent, as each IP block typically has its own update schedule," says Qualcomm's Vice President Tim McDonough.