Microsoft already has support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830
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We all know how throughout the existence of Microsoft mobile phones, there has always been one feature that didn't change. Inside they all mounted a Qualcomm processor, more or less powerful, but always one created by the North American manufacturer.
This year the star is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, a processor that arrives ready to erase the bad taste in the mouth that has generated the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and its heating problems in the devices that mounted it, especially in its first generation.
However, in technology what is current today, tomorrow is already a relic and while we are still working on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 news are beginning to arrive about its successor , the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 preparing for next year.
Everything indicates that at the end of this year, coinciding with the arrival of the we would see a Qualcomm Snapdragon 823 arrive that would improve the clock speed, but the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 would be the star for next year's terminals and among them there is room for the high-end ones that Microsoft is supposed to launch in 2017.
So much so that from Microsoft itself we receive information stating that will continue betting on Qualcomm, finding information on hardware requirements for your operating system among which reference is made to a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8998 which would be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830, being compatible with Windows 10 Mobile
Qualcomm bets on heart-stopping numbers
We have few details for now about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 except those that refer to Samsung's manufacturing process in 10 nm and that it would have the capacity to support up to 8 GB of RAM, we don't know if we will see any terminal with that exorbitant amount of RAM.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 is expected to be the destined processor for top-of-the-line Windows 10 Mobile released by Microsoft so that it will be for a good part of the high-end Android at the beginning of 2017. _Could we see a Surface Phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 830?_ Let us also remember that Windows 10 Mobile already supports x86 processors , something that allows Intel to enter the game and who knows if over time other manufacturers like Mediatek could also sign up to occupy the interior of Microsoft terminals.
Via | MSPoweruser