Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820 flagship won't actually ship in any phones before early 2016, but the company continues to dole out bits of information ahead of the launch. Today it's talking in very broad terms about the CPU, which is based on a brand-new custom 64-bit architecture called Kryo. Kryo is Qualcomm's official successor to Krait, the CPU architecture used in a wide range of Snapdragon chips from the S4 all the way up to the 805.
It is clearly too soon for a full-on Snapdragon 820 sequel, with Qualcomm instead taking the wraps off a minor Snapdragon 821 upgrade for your Note 7.
A rumor attached to a photo details a 4.3" Xiaomi that will be powered by the Snapdragon 820 chipset. The screen will have 720p resolution, which shouldn't be a problem (wasn't for the Compacts).
Snapdragon 820 is the upgrade to the controversial Snapdragon 810 which was seen as a flop in the eyes of many. The 820 aims to change that by generally being awesome.
The specs revealed on Geekbench were really impressive. Crunchng just hopes the overheating problem found on the 810 isn't present here too.
