Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 Plus platform will be good for gaming.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 Plus platform will be good for gaming.
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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G Mobile platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Qualcomm unveiled a number of 5G semiconductor products today for the virtual Mobile World Congress event, including an upgrade to the chipmaker’s flagship Snapdragon 888 processor.

The Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G Mobile platform is a follow-on to the Snapdragon 888, and it will serve as the brains of smartphones coming in the second half of the year from customers including Asus, Honor, Motorola, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.