Alex Katouzian, a senior vice president and general manager of mobile for Qualcomm Technologies,  took the stage and announced the Snapdragon 845. He had a sample in his hand and didn’t really go into any details about the chip. Katouzian did mention that a SoC is a three year journey where the infrastructure partners play a big role. Of course, we want to know a bit more about CPU, GPU, DSP, Camera, AI and transistor count / battery life, but we were assured that we will be able to learn some of it tomorrow.

He did mention that they had six pillars when they designed the 845 SoC. They paid a lot of detail and attention to the camera and share performance and AI performance that can touch every app on the phone. VR, multimedia, and overall performance play a big role in the whole 845 SoC design as well as  security and connectivity. These six pillars play a big role in shaping up the Snapdragon 845.

The chip is manufactured by Samsung, obviously its second generation 10nm design, but this is also something that we will have to wait for until tomorrow. The main announcer and the excellent host Cristiano Amon, an executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies and president of QCT, had the Samsung fab guy on the stage. Dr. ES Joung the President and General manager of the foundry business at Samsung Electronics took the stage, which gave us a good indication which company is behind the chip.

Stay tuned for more details.