There’s a big chance the Snapdragon 818 doesn’t even exist

May 12, 2015 13:14 GMT  ·  By

Yesterday, we told you that Qualcomm might be prepping a competitor to MediaTek’s new deca-core chip, the MT6797 SoC, which was part of the Helio X20 series.

The leak revealed extensive details about the Snapdragon 818 unit, including the fact that the chip would rely on four low-power cores of the 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 variety, two middle-range 1.6GHz Cortex-A53 cores, plus four high-power cores of the 2.0GHz Cortex A72 kind.

The Snapdragon 818 was also said to take advantage of an Adreno 532 GPU and to support LPDDR4 RAM. The chip was rumored to be built using 20nm process technology and to be able to handle LTE Cat-10 speeds.

However, it seems that all these whisperings are just part of an elaborate hoax. According to popular Chinese mobile industry analyst Pan Jiutang, the rumors about Qualcomm prepping a Snapdragon 818 processor are complete rubbish.

The analyst has been right about the plans of the US chipmaker before, so we should probably give him some credit when he says there’s no ridiculous deca-core chip coming out of Qualcomm.

Unlike MediaTek’s Helio X20 chip, the rumored Snapdragon 818 would house two additional high-power cores, clocked at lower frequencies, which is a piece of information the analyst considers to be science fiction.

Qualcomm hasn't said anything about a so-called Snapdragon 818 processor until now, so there’s a really big chance this purported piece of silicone is not real indeed.