Rumor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 will be made on Samsung’s 8nm process

A photo with specifications has appeared online of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 and the Snapdragon 730. The latter would be made using Samsung’s 8nm process. The soc would also contain its own neural processing unit.

Both Snapdragons from the 700 series would get two fast Kryo cores, assisted by six economical variants. The GPU of both socs is the Adreno 615 and there is support for screens with a resolution of up to 3040×1440 pixels. Qualcomm would also provide the Snapdragon 730 with an npu. Huawei is already doing that with its Kirin 970 soc and Samsung also has a soc containing a chip with a neural network.

According to the image, posted online by SuggestPone, the Snapdragon 730 is made on Samsung’s new 8nm process. The South Korean manufacturer announced at the end of last year that it was ready for the production of chips. The node is up to ten percent more efficient than the 10nm-lpp process from Samsung, on which the Snapdragon 845 is made, for example.

The Snapdragon 710 is not made on the new process, but on the older 10nm lpe node. That is a less efficient process than the 10nm lpp node that Samsung has been producing for some time. Perhaps the choice has to do with capacity.

It is not clear whether all the details are correct, but the information about the SD710 corresponds to what XDA Developers previously released. That website discovered that the Snapdragon 710 is a rebrand of the Snapdragon 670, which in turn was the intended successor to the SD660. Qualcomm never announced the SD670.

Qualcomm announced at the end of February that there will be a Snapdragon 700 series, but the chip designer has not yet announced anything about the specifications.