Qualcomm to release Snapdragon 810 on schedule

Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 810 soc will still ship in the first half of 2015. The company also indicates that it does not want to respond to the rumors that the chip is struggling with several problems.

A Qualcomm spokesperson contradicts reports of a possible delay. Although the company does not want to make any statements about the rumors, it is claimed that the Snapdragon 810-soc will still appear in the first half of 2015. Development of the chip is progressing according to schedule, a spokesperson reported to Techradar. The Snapdragon 810 is an octacore 64bit soc with four Cortex A57 processor cores and four Cortex A53 cores. The soc also has an integrated Adreno 430 GPU.

A few days ago, based on anonymous sources, it emerged that the Snapdragon 810-soc suffered from several problems. For example, the chip is said to overheat at a certain voltage. In addition, the ram controller and the gpu would contain errors. LG, Samsung and Sony would fear that Qualcomm cannot deliver the soc as planned. Galaxy S6 devices, among others, would be equipped with the soc.