Qualcomm has announced its next-generation flagship processor, the Snapdragon 888, that will be powering the high-end smartphone segment in 2021. The chipset was announced during the ongoing ...

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 870 processor. It says the new chipset is a follow-up to the Snapdragon 865 series. It’s essentially a Snapdragon 865 Plus with a clock speed improvement.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets power a majority of Android smartphones in the budget, mid-range, and high-end segment. While the chip designer announces a few new chipsets through the year, it ...

Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, a successor to last year’s Snapdragon 865 and 865 Plus models. To be clear, the 870 isn’t a new next-gen ...

By way of contrast, the Snapdragon 865 reference device I played with twelve months ago scored 576,146. In Geekbench's single-core test, the Snapdragon 888 scored 1,135, while in the multi-core ...

the Snapdragon 865, to be their 870 series offering, the unveiling of the Snapdragon 888 left some surprised. However, it seems that the company is now filling the void between the two series with ...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 mobile application processor is a bewilderingly complex piece of silicon. Between the new CPU, GPU, machine learning, image processing, a 5G modem, and sensor hub ...

would have made this chip the "Snapdragon 875" after the 865, 855, and 845 from previous years. The switch to Snapdragon 888 is apparently a nod to Chinese culture, which views 8 as a lucky number.

Roughly a month after launching the Snapdragon 888 for next-gen smartphones, Qualcomm decided to go back to its earlier Snapdragon 865 to tweak it once again, resulting in the upgraded Snapdragon 870.

The Snapdragon 888 system-on-chip unveiled by Qualcomm this week should deliver a noticeable performance boost to next year's flagship Android phones. After all, this is Qualcomm's first 5 ...