The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S7 previously leaked to run on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8210 processor.
Samsung is a few days away from its official announcement of its next flagship phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Egde Plus, but these upcoming devices might have been overshadowed by the Samsung Galaxy S7, which was rumored to be inferior compared to these two.
According to the leaked documents, Samsung is already on the works with another flagship device and has been testing the device to run on MSM8996 chip which notably the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Phone Arena reported.
IB Times added that the Samsung Galaxy A7 follows a quicker development phase as the Korean tech giant "switched to widely-used methodology called "Agile."
The upcoming flagship is said to be "ready" on the second half of 2015, but most likely get an earlier 2016 release and might appear at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tthe Snapdragon 820 processor boasts 35 percent improvement over its predecrssor and Sammobile claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S7 codenamed Jungfrau, "will benefit from Adreno 530 graphics and LP-DDR4 RAM support with this chip inside," PC Advisor reported.
"We have to use the best engines to make our products competitive, which is why we opted to use our own chips," said JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile.
"But we may very well end up using products from Qualcomm again in the next Galaxy phone."
After the Snapdragon 810 processor plagued with overheating issues, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 820 with incremental development, according to GSM Arena.
"The Snapdragon 820 will use the new generation Adreno 530 GPU, Snapdragon 618 and 620 will use 510. All 5-series Adrenos will support OpenGL 3.1 (with 3.2 coming later) and the new Vulcan API. Qualcomm claims a 40% jump in performance along with a 40% cut in power usage. The Adreno 510 GPU should deliver similar improvements over the 405."
