Most of us are familiar with companies that make chipsets for smartphones by now. There's Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek, and Huawei Android devices, while Apple for its iPhones. What's unexpected is AMD seemingly getting ready to join the fray with a new smartphone chipset.
According to a screenshot shared by Twitter user HansDeVriesNL, AMD could be developing a smartphone chipset with the Ryzen branding. Codenamed Ryzen C7, the chipset has two Gaugin Pro CPU cores (3GHz), two Cortex-A78 cores (2.6GHz), and four Cortex-A55 cores (2GHz). The Gaugin Pro is based on the Cortex-X1 that was announced recently alongside the Cortex-A78.
Somebody registered at a mobile phone leak site only to drop this image...https://t.co/4WcS8GMTFU
— Hans de Vries (@HansDeVriesNL) May 31, 2020
Looks reasonably legit and certainly a very desirable flagship SoC. They did misspell the name of Paul Gauguin, scholar of Cézanne and friend of Vincent van Gogh though. pic.twitter.com/n9NSUirqpL
If that's not surprising enough, the Ryzen C7 also packs a GPU based on an RDNA 2 Mobile architecture. Allegedly, this GPU will perform 45% better than an Adreno 650 GPU, which is the GPU found in the Snapdragon 865 chipset. Besides that, the chipset is also supposed to support 5G, 144Hz refresh rate, LPDDR5 RAM, WiFi 6, and more.
If it's true, this could be a chipset that challenges the flagship dominance of Qualcomm chipsets, but it's best to take the news with a pinch of salt. Having said that, what do you think about the news? Let us know on our Facebook page and stay tuned to TechNave.com for further updates.
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