Chris Davies - Dec 18, 2020, 8:30am CST
The Snapdragon 888 is Qualcomm’s flagship chipset for Android smartphones in 2021, and the stakes have arguably never been higher. On the one hand, Apple is flexing its chip-design chops, and while Qualcomm modems may be in its current hardware, that’s not going to be the case forever. Meanwhile, Qualcomm’s Android SoC rivals aren’t standing still.
Qualcomm has pulled out all the stops for the Snapdragon 888, then, even skipping ahead in its nomenclature to borrow some traditional Chinese good luck in the process. Were 2020 a normal year, we’d have had a chance to play with the company’s Snapdragon reference design, Qualcomm’s demo hardware for developers and engineers to tinker with the specs.