Although Samsung and
Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon 835 chipset manufactured on
the former's 10nm FinFET process, not many details were provided on its
capabilities.
While we believe the Galaxy S8
will be among the first smartphones to pack the powerful CPU, it's
still unclear when the chipset will be ready for commercial use.
“We are pleased to have the opportunity to work
closely with Qualcomm Technologies in producing the Snapdragon 835 using
our 10nm FinFET technology,” said Jong Shik Yoon, executive vice president and head of foundry business, Samsung.
The only timeframe Qualcomm has given us about the
Snapdragon 835's availability is that the chipset is already in
production and that's it's expected to ship in commercial devices in the
first half of 2017.
Since many flagship smartphones will be announced in
the first two months of 2017, it remains to be seen when they will
actually be available for purchase if the Snapdragon 835 won't be ready.
The good news is we already know a couple of things
about the Snapdragon processor, which is the size of a single water
molecule or 1,000 times smaller than a strand of hair.
Both Samsung and Qualcomm confirmed that the Snapdragon 835 CPU
is made of nanomaterials, molecules and atoms less than 100nm in size
that have different properties from their larger-particle counterparts.
It's also worth mentioning that Samsung's new 10nm
FinFET process allows for up to 30% increase in area efficiency with a
27% improvement in performance or up to 40% less power consumption over
the previous Snapdragon CPUs.
And for even more details about the Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm announced that its new chipset “will come into focus at CES 2017.”
So, in less than two weeks, we'll find out more
information about Snapdragon 835's performance and possible comparisons
between its predecessors and the competition.
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