Washington, July 31 -- : The American software company Qualcomm might officially name its next flagship chipset as 'Snapdragon 898'.

As per Mashable India, a famed tipster now claims that Qualcomm's next flagship SoC, which is yet to be officially revealed, would actually be named Snapdragon 898.

Popular tipster Ice Universe mentioned the new flagship SoC name on Weibo- a micro-blogging site while also stating that the "Cortex-X2 CPU will run at 3.09GHz".

He claimed that he saw the 'aforementioned clock speed', suggesting that the "Snapdragon 898 may need been a sample that was being tested out on a prototype smartphone to ascertain how far the manufacturer could reach higher CPU frequencies before putting a brake on things to stop tempe...