Qualcomm has announced its next generation Snapdragon 835 processor, which is unsurprisingly built on the 10nm manufacturing process. Interestingly, the chip is being made by Samsung; who are the only ones with the facilities to build mobile transistors this small.
There are no details about the capabilities of the Snapdragon 835 as of yet. Qualcomm’s announcement is solely focused on the 10nm size of the transistors and what it could possibly mean. However, the company vaguely alludes to “a 30 percent increase in area efficiency with a 27 percent improvement in performance or up to 40 percent less power consumption compared to the previous version.”
The new processor isn’t expected until the middle of 2017, although it looks like there is a Snapdragon 830 processor also in the works. Whether Samsung’s involvement means that it will be adopting the new chip for the Galaxy S8 is still uncertain; as the company has been known to manufacture components for third parties.
A rumoured Snapdragon 830 processor is also apparently being made, but Qualcomm is not saying anything about that either. Which leaves us with two new processors and no specifications for either of them.
[Source: Qualcomm]
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I hope that this new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 does reduce the number of phone explosions that has happened recently.
With Quick Charge 4, “5 hours of use from just 5 minutes of charging.”
It is something i doubt, like how Google said at first how the Pixel could charge “7 hours in 15 minutes”
Here is a more indepth article on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 835.
http://saintlad.com/the-new-qualcomm-snapdragon-835-quick-charge-4/
Further Reading
USB Type-C
• https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/cEvVQLXhyRX
FinFET manufacturing of nano-sized processors
• https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tking/presentations/KingLiu_2012VLSI-Tshortcourse
• http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/foundry/process-technology/14nm/
• http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/data/semicond/fet-field-effect-transistor/finfet-technology-basics.php
• http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/pdf/foundry/mark-bohr-2014-idf-presentation.pdf