Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 successor's name and performance revealed in new leak

Qualcomm is likely to hold an event sometime in December to launch the Snapdragon 898 chipset.

Qualcomm’s latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 888, still continues to be available on high-end Android phones. Even though there is a slightly better Snapdragon 888 Plus processor available, the smartphone makers are now looking forward to what Qualcomm has next in the pipeline. According to a report, the successor to the Snapdragon 888 is going to be called Snapdragon 898. This is contradictory to reports that previously said that it would be the Snapdragon 895 that will arrive in 2021. The nomenclature of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors is getting confusing and it began when the chipmaker launched the Snapdragon 888 instead of the Snapdragon 875. The flagship processor before the Snapdragon 888 was the Snapdragon 865. But Chinese tipster Ice Universe has said this year’s flagship is going to be the Snapdragon 898. He added that the prime core of the chipset will be based on Cortex-X2 and will have a maximum clock speed of 3.09GHz. The Cortex-X2 debuted back in May as Arm’s next-generation high-performance CPU that brings 16 per cent performance growth over the Cortex-X1.