Qualcomm is all set to lift the covers from the company’s next flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 855, what we have known as the Snapdragon 8150 in the rumors phase, at an event in Hawaii later today. But hours before the official announcement, key details about the upcoming chipset’s specifications such as core architecture and capabilities have been leaked, thanks to a detailed article published by TechCrunch which was apparently under embargo and was not supposed to be out later today.
The article, which has now been pulled down, revealed that the new SoC is based on the 7nm process and has a dedicated NPU with a multicore AI engine that offers approximately 3x better performance when it comes to AI-based tasks such as AI scene detection and object recognition compared to its predecessor. Smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 855 SoC from brands such as Samsung, LG, HTC, OnePlus and Oppo are expected to arrive in the first half of 2019.
