New Delhi: Qualcomm has already confirmed that it will be launching its new flagship chipset on November 30. Rumors suggest that the company may change the name of its flagship chipset.
Qualcomm has now confirmed that it will be switching to a new naming scheme for the upcoming mobile chipset. The US chipset major said it will go with single-digit series and generation numbers with the latest flagships dragon picture 8-series platform. Hence, the company has now indicated that it will not name the upcoming processor as Snapdragon 898.
Recently, leakers Ice Universe and Digital Chat Station had claimed that Qualcomm may name the upcoming chipset as Snapdragon 8 Gen1. Qualcomm 800 series is the company’s flagship processor. If this is to be believed, then in the year 2022, the company will name the next chipset as Snapdragon 8 Gen2 etc.
The company has not yet revealed whether it will also change the name of the lower-end chipset.
Apart from this, a recent rumor also revealed that the upcoming flagship processor from Qualcomm will be capable of offering 150W fast charging support. According to a report in Digital Chat Station, the upcoming smartphone will pack a Qualcomm processor capable of offering 150W fast charging support. The report also states that chips with 150W charging support will come later as the chips in the first batch are not ready to support such rates.
The report also claims that Qualcomm will offer support for speeds of up to 150W in the second batch of chips that will start shipping in late 2021. Therefore, devices powered by these chips will launch in the first quarter of 2022. The charging speed will enable the smartphone to get full juice in just 10 minutes.
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