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Nevertheless, Mediatek could become a serious competitor for Qualcomm. I doubt their new Krait will perform better than A72, but we'll see.

Qualcomm have said they'll have A72's in their 618 and 620 in the second half of the year.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2396074/qualcomm-outs-arm-cortex-a72-based-snapdragon-620-and-618-chips

WRONG -> They haven't said anything yet about what they'll do about the successor to the 810 as far as I know never mind what any successor to Krait would be like. Presumably they're still working on it but the cost/benefit for mobiles must be getting dicey. My guess, very very much finger in the air, is they're retargeting that effort for their ideas of getting into the server market and will just go with ARM for high end smartphones. /WRONG

Hmm I'm proven wrong already. Qualcomm have teased the 820 with what they call their custom Kryo processor to sample in the second half of the year. Oh well so much for my guesses.

http://www.windowscentral.com/qualcomm-announces-ultrasonic-finger-scanner-and-machine-learning-engine-teases-snapdragon-820