In late 2019, smartphone processor manufacturer Qualcomm, which provides chipsets for many Android handsets, released the Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset, an improved version of its main flagship chipset for the year. We were expecting the same to happen in 2020, but it seems the Snapdragon 865 is not going to receive a Plus equivalent.

This news comes from Wan Zhiqiang, the CMO of Meizu, a Chinese smartphone company (which hasn’t really brought its phones to many Western countries yet), in a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, as reported by Mydrivers. In the post, Zhiqiang confirmed that there would be no Snapdragon 865 Plus chipset in 2020.

As an official in a smartphone company, presumably Zhiqiang would have accurate information on the new processor, so it seems very likely that the information is correct. TechRadar reached out to Qualcomm for clarification on the matter, but received no comment.
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