BlackBerry would launch a smartphone powered by a 64-bit Octa-Core chip, according to a recent report from the pocket-lint. Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 which was the Exynos 5410, its first Octa-Core chip with fours Cortex A15 chips and four Cortex A7 chips. Later it released an upgraded Exynos 5420 on the Note 3. Recent rumors from N4BB revealed that the BlackBerry phone would run on the upcoming Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) chip.
According to recent rumors, the Snapdragon 810 would be the first 64 bit octa-core CPU from the company. It would be clocked at 2.5 GHz per core and come with Adreno 430 GPU. It would be manufactured using 20 nm HKMG process technology, which is the next step for chip makers, a transition from 28nm process used in recent chips such as Snapdragon 805.
MediaTek announced the MT6595 platform earlier this week, which uses 8 ARM Cortex-A17 CPU cores. It would be available for sampling in the first half of 2014. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 is rumored to be available for OEMs for sampling in Q4 2014. Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 800 chip at the CES 2013 last year, which powers most of the high-end devices. It demoed the features of the Snapdragon 805 at the CES last month. Will it unveil the next-gen Snapdragon 810 chip at the MWC later this month?