Is Qualcomm readying Snapdragon 815 and Snapdragon 820 after heating issues found in Snapdragon 810?

After Apple surprised every mobile processor brand by releasing a 64-bit A7 chipset with the iPhone 5S, its competitors were forced to release new chipsets with support for 64-bit computing. An year after Apple’s announcement, Qualcomm unveiled a complete line-up of 64-bit processors. This line-up included the Snapdragon 410, the Snapdragon 610, the Snapdragon 615, the Snapdragon 808, and the Snapdragon 810.

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But it seems that all is not well with some of these chipsets, especially the Snapdragon 810, which features an octa-core 64-bit CPU. According to several reports, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 is facing overheating issues as well as some problems with its memory controller. For the first time in years, Qualcomm is using stock ARM Cortex CPU cores in its chipsets instead of home-tweaked Krait CPU cores, which were in use till the Snapdragon 805 SoC. These CPU cores are supposed to be clocked at 2GHz, but due to overheating issues, smartphone OEMs have clocked the chipset at just 1.2/1.4GHz.

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Apparently, Samsung has decided against using the Snapdragon 810 in its next-generation flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, which is to be unveiled in March 2015. Samsung will use its homegrown 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 chipset in the Galaxy S6. There has been a report, which says that Qualcomm will provide a revised Snapdragon 810 chipset, but we have issues trusting the report.

On the contrary, smartphone brands like LG and Xiaomi, who have already announced smartphones equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, have announced that there are no such issues with the chipset. Even Qualcomm has official stated that they have ironed out all the issues from the Snapdragon 810. But should we consumers believe them blindly?