Qualcomm recently posted a page on its website revealing that its Technology Summit event will be held between November 30 and December 2, 2021. The poster features a boat spinning around in the water, depicting an infinite sign, and "More, coming soon!" " text - that's all. As of the time of writing, there is no additional information, no published agenda, nothing.
Still, rumors about the next flagship, the Snapdragon 898, have been circulating for some time. In fact, the sources say that the first phone to use the chip will be the Xiaomi Mi 12, which will be launched before the end of the year. Given that keynote speeches usually take place on the first day of the conference, it can be assumed that the Snapdragon 898 will announce the details on November 30, no later than December 2.
Since there have been quite a few leaks on the news surface, and even someone once found an actual unknown device including a chipset called Qualcomm SM8450, the so-called Snapdragon 898, which gives us a pretty good understanding of its specifications. It is expected to have an arm cortex-x2 CPU large core that runs at 3.0 GHz, three cortex-a710-based midcores with a frequency of 2.5 GHz, and finally four cortex-a510 energy-saving cores that play a secondary role at a frequency of 1.79 GHz.
The Snapdragon 898's self-built GPU is said to be the ADRENO 730, which could bring up to a 20% performance boost after the architectural improvements of the ADREO 660 and the upgrade of Samsung's 4-nanometer manufacturing process. In terms of connectivity, we expect to use an x65 5G modem with a theoretical maximum downlink speed of 10gbps.