Qualcomm to develop Snapdragon 7c Successor, may power mid-range Laptops: Reports

After last week’s news of a new flagship chipset that made waves across the industry, Qualcomm is reportedly in the process of developing a Snapdragon 7c successor. This successor will be a mid-range Arm-based PC chipset to support cheaper hardware. According to a report by WinFuture, the likely addition to the series bears the internal model number SC7295.

Android Authority states that “the publication believes the silicon is a variant of the Snapdragon 775 chip for smartphones set to power the yet-to-be-released Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite.” Leaked specs of Snapdragon 775 indicate a 5nm manufacturing process, LPDDR5 RAM support, and mmWave 5G support.

As for hardware details of the chip, it does not adopt the same all-performance core layout as the previously rumored successor of Snapdragon 8cx. Eight cores in total are featured in the chipset, with four pulling low-power processing duties clocked at 1.8GHz. Clocked at 2.7GHz, one pure performance core also exists. The remaining three cores clock in at speeds of 2.4GHz.

About the layout, Android Authority reports, “that layout is still a departure from the original Snapdragon 7c. It sported two performance Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.4GHz and another six Cortex-A55 cores.” The new chipset is expected to offer considerably more processing power than its predecessor.

Testing hardware has found no mention, therefore, we know little about the devices Qualcomm is hoping to power. However, the American chipmaker is likely to have to adapt to Microsoft and its Windows releases, among others, with its product planning. There are still a limited number of devices with a combination of Windows and Qualcomm CPUs. This might be because the performance has often not yet reached the expected level. The chip giant is therefore increasingly dependent on Google and its Chromebook partners to be the customers for the ARM chips for notebooks.