A few days ago, Qualcomm reportedly said that one large smartphone manufacturing firm had dropped the company's flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 810, initially meant to be assimilated into an unreleased product. While the leading mobile chipset maker did not name the tech firm, it can be speculated that they were referring to Samsung, widely rumored to have dropped Qualcomm's latest product in favor of its own chipset.
What might have prevented the South Korean company from incorporating the solution into its upcoming device is the overheating and GPU driver issues that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 allegedly suffers from.
However, after speaking to Re/code, Qualcomm said that its leading chipset is not suffering from any issues whatsoever, and that is "performing very well" in its current state.
Cristiano Amon, the company's executive vice president, said, "We don't see any problem with the 810 ... I think there is a lot of misinformation out there."
The Snapdragon 810 is the company's first high-end chipset to feature a processor compatible with 64-bit architecture. This compatibility will allow phone manufacturers to accommodate a total amount of memory (RAM) that will exceed 4 GB.
As for the Galaxy S6, it is expected that the upcoming handset will feature Samsung's own Exynos 7420 chipset instead. It can also be speculated that Samsung decided not to assimilate Qualcomm's offering into its Galaxy S6 because it wants Qualcomm to loosen its grip on the global mobile chipset market. While Samsung has dropped 8.8 percent of its market share down to 20 percent for the fourth quarter of 2014, the company still remains the largest smartphone maker in the world, with Apple right behind it with a market share of 19.8 percent.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm is said to be looking to release its Snapdragon 820 chip in 2015, which will feature a processor that will be processed on the Taipan architecture rather than the inferior Krait architecture.
