Details about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820, Snapdragon 815 and other chips leaks

BY Rajesh Pandey

Published 20 Jan 2015

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Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 810 is a beast in every sense and will be powering most of the high-end devices that will be announced in the first half of the year. However, Qualcomm has been mum as to what comes after the Snapdragon 810. 

The company’s surprise has been ruined today by @leaksfly, who has posted a full timeline of Qualcomm’s upcoming chipsets for the second half of 2015, revealing all their juicy details. The highlight of the leak is, undoubtedly, the Snapdragon 820 — the successor to the Snapdragon 810. According to the leak, the Snapdragon 820 SoC will be based on the 14nm FinFet process from Samsung and GeoFoundries and will be using Qualcomm’s own 64-bit custom cores, dubbed Taipan. Other notable features of the Snapdragon 820 includes an Adreno 530 GPU, support for LPDDR4 memory and a new MDM 9×55 LTE-A Cat. 10 baseband.

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If true, it is pretty interesting to see that Qualcomm will be shifting to its own 64-bit custom cores less than a year after releasing its first high-end 64-bit SoC. It is also surprising to see that the company will not be using TSMC’s foundries for fabricating the Snapdragon 820.

Qualcomm is also working on a Snapdragon 808 successor, dubbed the Snapdragon 815. The octa-core SoC will also be released in the second half of 2015 and feature four TS1i and four TS2 cores in big.LITTLE configurations. It will come with an Adreno 450 GPU, an MDM9X55 LTE-A Cat.10 modem and support LPDDR4 memory. However, unlike the Snapdragon 820, the 815 will be based on the 20nm fabrication process.

The leak also mentions about other low-end chips from Qualcomm, including the Snapdragon 625, 629, 620 and 616. The first two are octa-core processors that will feature an Adreno 418 GPU and will be based on the 20nm HKMG fabrication process from Samsung. The Snapdragon 620 is a quad-core processor and will feature Qualcomm’s Taipan cores clocked at 2-2.5GHz. All the three SoCs will feature an MDM9X45 LTE-A Cat.10 baseband.

Lastly, the Snapdragon 616 is aimed at extremely low-end devices and will feature eight (!) Cortex-A53 cores clocked at anywhere between 1.8 to 2.2GHz. It will come with an Adreno 408 GPU and support LTE-A Cat.6 networks.

It will be pretty interesting to see how Qualcomm’s Taipan architecture stacks up against 64-bit offerings from ARM, Nvidia and Apple.

[Via Gizmo China]