Man walks past Qualcomm stand while attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona March 3, 2015. Ninety thousand executives, marketers and reporters gather in Barcelona this week for the telecom op (Photo : REUTERS/Albert Gea )
Qualcomm Vice President of marketing Tim McDonough recently told Forbes that rumors about the overheating problem of the Snapdragon 810 chipset were "rubbish."
McDonough added that the reason why early benchmarking results of the Snapdragon 810 showed that the chipset is overheating is because they were not the final commercial versions. McDonough said, "We all build pre-released products to find bugs and do performance optimization. So when pre-released hardware doesn't act like commercial hardware, it's just part of the development process."
The issues about overheating Snapdragon 810 chips began in January when several benchmarking results show that Qualcomm's flagship system-on-chip (SoC) were overheating. As a result, Qualcomm suffered a heavy backlash from several manufacturers. Most notable of this is when Samsung dropped the Snapdragon 810 chipset in favor of the company's own Exynos 7420 processor to power the Galaxy S6 smartphone.
Despite subsequent benchmarking results on smartphones using the Snapdragon 810 processor - LG G Flex 2 and HTC One M9 to name a few - the initial quandary has caused an irreparable damage to Qualcomm's image.
As part of its effort to win back Samsung along with the industry's confidence, Qualcomm will introduce its first ever cognitive computing platform named Zeroth before the end of 2015. The new technology developed by Qualcomm lies at the heart of its upcoming Snapdragon 820.
There are also rumors claiming that Qualcomm is tapping Samsung to manufacture the upcoming Snapdragon 820. If these rumors are true, it will not be a surprise if future Samsung products will have Qualcomm chipsets in them again.
According to Tech Times, Qualcomm wants to use Samsung's 14 nm technology in order to prevent its chipsets from encountering similar overheating issues. Samsung's 14 nm technology was used in manufacturing the Exynos 7420 chipset which is currently used in Galaxy S6.
