Not that it comes as a huge surprise, but allegedly the first phones with the freshly-announced
Snapdragon 835 will be
Samsung's
Galaxy S8 and the
Xiaomi Mi 6, according to Keving Wong, the CEO of research shop IHS for China. Qualcomm announced that the powerful 10nm chipset is already sampling with customers, and it will apparently be
produced in Samsung's foundries with engineering input from the world's largest
phone maker.
Furthermore, Kevin Wong discloses that both the
Galaxy S8 and Mi 6 are expected to be released in March, which, coincidentally, is right after Samsung is tipped to
unveil its spring flagship before the MWC expo starts.
The S8 may come powered by both a homemade Exynos chipset, and a
Snapdragon 835 for the US versions, that is why Samsung might have wanted to have a final say over its production and power optimization details.
