The 5 premium chips that will power flagship smartphones through 2017 and 2018

The SoC (System-on-a-Chip, also refered to as processor and chipset) is at the heart of the smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and other connected gear we use on a daily basis. Now that the information is broadly available, we'd like to sit down and review the upcoming processors that will power the majority of 2018's high-end smartphones.

With considerably advanced developments in CPU core design by ARM, the British company whose work is licensed by virtually all embedded chip makers as the basis for their products, we have plenty of gains in performance and power efficiency to look forward ...