Qualcomm is busy working on the successor to this year's Snapdragon 652 and information of next year's Octa-Core Snapdragon 653 could have been leaked on Weibo a few days ago. It is supposed to be built using the 28 nm process and will integrate four Cortex-A73 cores.
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