Sony is thought to be installing the latest Snapdragon 845
SoC in its newest smartphone, along with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.
Not exact matches
Lenovo is also claiming the Moto X4 is the first
smartphone running on the
new Snapdragon 630
SoC to be launched
in India.
Designed as a premium performance chip for dual - camera
smartphones, MediaTek today has introduced a
new member
in the MediaTek Helio P series with the MediaTek Helio P25
SoC.
When announcing the Mate 9, Huawei was pretty proud to be able to say that this is the first
smartphone using the
new ARM Cortex - A73 architecture
in the Kirin 960 (also the first device to feature this
SoC).
The flagship killer is one of the earliest adopters of the
new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
SoC — a processor that has been dubbed the most powerful
in the
smartphone world at the moment.
As 2017's most improved global
smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi is naturally thinking of unveiling a whole slew of
new products
in the next few months, including a mysterious «Berlin» mid-ranger with an unreleased Snapdragon
SoC inside, and a gaming - focused «Blackshark.»
The Surge S2, which is expected to be an otca - core
SoC with eight high performance ARM Cortex A53 cores, is estimated to be released into mass production
in the third quarter of 2017 and be launched together with Xiaomi's
new smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Starting this year with
smartphones which ship with Android Oreo, Google is requiring that all
SoCs productized
in 2017 must launch with kernel 4.4 or
newer.
Back
in August, when Qualcomm's as - yet - unreleased
new flagship
smartphone SoC wasn't even properly announced, a repeat of last year's slow Snapdragon 835 debut seemed
in the cards.
Huawei didn't announce any
new smartphones or tablets at IFA, but the company did take the wraps off the Kirin 970, its flagship
SoC that has built -
in AI computing capabilities.
In any case, all the Mate 10
smartphones are made out of metal and glass, while they're all fueled by the Kirin 970 64 - bit octa - core
SoC, which is Huawei's
new flagship processor.
Although Qualcomm supports Quick Charge
in all of its
new SoCs, it is still up to
smartphone and tablet manufacturers to implement the specific circuitry required to make full use of the fastest charging speeds available.
Smartphone wise, Intel will also be releasing its
new Moorefield
SoCs in the third quarter, as well as a
new SoFIA program for budget oriented handsets.