Latest reports seem to suggest that the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 6 will feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset. Doing so would make Xiaomi the first Chinese smartphone manufacturer to harness the latest flagship Qualcomm chipset.
However, the reports come amid rumours that Samsung has bought out the first batch of Snapdragon 835 chipsets, supposedly to be used in the Galaxy S8. It should be noted that the release window for Galaxy S8 is not clear as Samsung announced it may not be launched during MWC 2017.
Due to Samsung’s buyout of batch one Snapdragon 835 chipsets, LG’s much awaited smartphone, the G6 also had to back down and use the older Snapdragon 821 chipset. HTC on the other hand has decided to delay the launch of their latest flagship in order to use the next batch of Snapdragon 835 chips.
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Rumours surrounding Xiaomi hint that the competitive brand will not bow down to Samsung and will instead use a clocked down version of the Snapdragon 835. The Mi 5 was released with a similarly clocked down Snapdragon 820 chip but that did not impede its success in anyway. We hope that Xiaomi can crack the same formula with the Mi 6.
“Oh no! How am I supposed to live with 10k points less on antutu?! That’s unbearable!” – someone who should really rethink its priorities
Oh no! it will be even harder to open facebook
no problem, like on mi5, we will able to overclock it until normal frequency
“Oh no! How am I supposed to live with 10k points less on antutu?! That’s unbearable!” – someone who should really rethink its priorities
This is the stupid Qualcomm decision that use Samsung to manufacture their soc.
If they ordered from tsmc then this issue will not happen.
Samsung purposely use this dirty trick so they can launch and sell their stupid premium (read : ridiculously expensive) galaxy series ahead from other vendor.
TSMC will still be at least 2~3 months behind Samsung regarding their 10nm FinFET & will have same batch lo yields in the start. In this game it’s all about being first in the market, Samsung is using it but other will follow shortly. Actually I am still more exited about Globefonders 22nm FD-SOI in the 3Q of the year than 10nm FinFET’s. Unfortunately we didn’t see much of the Samsungs 28nm FD-SOI’s.
Well this is basically ‘binning’ as they say, using lower ‘specced’ chips that don’t run at full speed but runs perfectly happy at lower frequencies helps maintain yields and hence keep prices down. This is one way for Xiaomi to keep their prices ultra competitive
Actually its good. Performance of cpu has been enough since SD801. Oneplus one still plays everything. GPU for 1080p screen has been good too.
Using a 10nm Soc with lower clock speeds will be very power efficient and give better battery performance.
Few extra points in benchmarks are useless. Battery life is much more imp.
Ill happily take a SS835 downclocked to SD652 performance level with 1080p screen. And downclocked to 820 level with a QHD screen.
Oh no! it will be even harder to open facebook
no problem, like on mi5, we will able to overclock it until normal frequency
This is the stupid Qualcomm decision that use Samsung to manufacture their soc.
If they ordered from tsmc then this issue will not happen.
Samsung purposely use this dirty trick so they can launch and sell their stupid premium (read : ridiculously expensive) galaxy series ahead from other vendor.
TSMC will still be at least 2~3 months behind Samsung regarding their 10nm FinFET & will have same batch lo yields in the start. In this game it’s all about being first in the market, Samsung is using it but other will follow shortly. Actually I am still more exited about Globefonders 22nm FD-SOI in the 3Q of the year than 10nm FinFET’s. Unfortunately we didn’t see much of the Samsungs 28nm FD-SOI’s.
Well this is basically ‘binning’ as they say, using lower ‘specced’ chips that don’t run at full speed but runs perfectly happy at lower frequencies helps maintain yields and hence keep prices down. This is one way for Xiaomi to keep their prices ultra competitive
Actually its good. Performance of cpu has been enough since SD801. Oneplus one still plays everything. GPU for 1080p screen has been good too.
Using a 10nm Soc with lower clock speeds will be very power efficient and give better battery performance.
Few extra points in benchmarks are useless. Battery life is much more imp.
Ill happily take a SS835 downclocked to SD652 performance level with 1080p screen. And downclocked to 820 level with a QHD screen.
hope it will have bigger battery than 4000mah
hope it will have bigger battery than 4000mah