Recently, the research director for IHS Technology China – Kevin Wang told to manufacturers on the Weibo page that it is safe to employ the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset on upcoming smartphone models. This seems to be good news for those who are looking forward to Snapdragon 820 phones.

Months ago,  Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 was found in the Geekbench 3 scores database. It is closely as powerful as the Exynos 7420 performance.

Previously, it is said that the Snapdragon 810’s propensity is overhear. Then, tipster Ticciolo sent out a tweet of information that the Snapdragon 820 phones will struggle the same heating problems as the last processor Snapdragon 810. In fact, Snapdragon 810 overheating issue has made many phone users worried.

Nevertheless, Mr . Wang confirm that the heat problems have been solved with the latest development of Snapdragon 820. The four custom cores and 14mm process used on it will prevent the chip from running into the overheating problems.

 

In addtition, The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is supposed to be completeted in the end of this year. A Chinese analyst Pan Jiutang spread the information on his Weibo page that Xiaomi Mi 5 will be the first device to be equipped the chip when it releases on March 2016. The followed devices might be Asus PadFone S2, Sony as well as HTC brand.

Qualcomm themselves are also rather confident that the new chipset will not overheat, but this will be made sure until they are actually included in the actual devices.