When we talk about 8 GB of RAM in a mobile device there is something that immediately resonates in our head and that has to do with What apps or video games will they really need? that huge amount of memory. In a PC computer, 8 GB of RAM is needed right now to be able to easily manage any next-generation video game, a design program such as Adobe Photoshop and a good number of small programs to be able to create text documents, online messaging or some for storage in Cloud. But if we go to a smartphone, 8 GB of RAM is still a long way off. Anyway, this is not going to stop us from seeing terminals with that huge amount of RAM soon if we have already seen how there are 5,5 ″ smartphones that reach more than 6.000 mAh. in the battery.
Last month of October of last year a report arrived that contained that the next Snapdragon 830 SoC will be based on 10nm technology. Now, the same Weibo user says that the processor will be based on Samsung's 10nm FinFET technology. The Korean manufacturer announced that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor will use 14nm LPP (Low-Power-Plus), the second generation of the company's own 14nm FinFET technology. This will lead us to the possibility that by early 2017 we will see a new Snapdragon chip that offers the option of reaching 8 GB of RAM on an Android mobile device.
An Android phone with 8GB of RAM
We have already known these options given by this chip when last month it was commented that the new Snapdragon 830 will come with support for 8 GB of RAM, so that the new information follows the same path and trail. It also says that the next Qualcomm processor will come with a 64-bit Kryo CPU that differentiates it from the Snapdragon 820 that we will soon see in a large majority of high-end phones like LG's G5 or Xiaomi Mi 5.
A Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 that will begin to arrive in the first half of this year in high-quality terminals such as the sayings of Xiaomi and those of LG, and the variant of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S7 that will have it as one of the most striking components.
Of the Snapdragon 830 it only remains to say that we will see it in early 2017 and which will be seen both at this year's IFA in Berlin and at CES in Las Vegas in 2017. Two of the most important events of the year that will be added to the Mobile World Congress that will take place in Barcelona next month, and in which we will see a good string of smartphones that will have inside the chip that has managed to attract everyone's attention this year.
Going from 4GB
If now a terminal with 4 GB of RAM it is enough for us to launch all kinds of apps and video games, we hope that this new Snapdragon 820 chip is a great reality what has been said about the graphical improvements, which will allow video game studios to launch titles that consume more resources, offer variation in game mechanics and that lead to another level those graphics.
As has to happen with new apps that have greater weight and each time get closer to those x86 that need more resources to be able to have better photo editing programs, image post-processing or what would be better text editors that reach the same capabilities that we find in their desktop versions.
In short, a greater capacity to launch better applications and better video games that means a greater opportunity to get more out of to those smartphones that have been integrated into our lives in an almost radical way and on which we already depend in part.