“Overheating Snapdragon 810 may lead to postponement of high-end smartphones”

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 soc is said to suffer from overheating and problems with the ram controller. The GPU would also contain an error. As a result, LG, Samsung and Sony, among others, fear that the introduction of the soc in the first half of 2015 is not feasible.

Business Korea reports this based on anonymous sources. Qualcomm would have great difficulty making the Snapdragon 810, an octacore 64bit SOC with four Cortex A57 processor cores and four Cortex A53 cores, work flawlessly. For example, the chip would overheat at a certain voltage and suddenly slow down due to problems with the ram controller. In addition, the integrated Adreno 430 GPU would also contain an unspecified error.

Due to the various difficulties with the high-end soc, Qualcomm would probably not make the promised introduction in the first half of next year. This is ringing alarm bells for a number of smartphone manufacturers. For example, Samsung would place the soc in some Galaxy S6 devices, although the electronics manufacturer can switch to its own Exynos socs. However, LG would have much less leeway for the planned G4, as would Sony working on the Xperia Z4. The three high-end devices should originally also be released in the first half of 2015, but it is unclear whether this will still be feasible.