Qualcomm is sending out invites in China for the launch of their mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 660. The company will announce the processor on May 9th. This chipset is mainly aimed at the mid-range smartphone market, and is a cheaper alternative to the high-end SD 835.

The Snapdragon 660 is manufactured using Samsung’s 14nm FinFet process and is designed to be powerful and efficient. It will feature 8 cores in total, with a combination of Cortex-A73 and A53 cores. For graphics, the chipset will come with Adreno 512 GPU and would include support for dual-channel LPDDR4X-1866 memory.

Read: Snapdragon 660 processor specs

The chipset would also support UFS 2.1 storage, LTE Cat.10, and camera up to 24MP resolution. That’s pretty good for a mid-range chipset and we’ve already heard of a few upcoming smartphones that are supposed to feature the SD 660, such as the Sony Xperia X Ultra.

Leaked benchmarks have shown that the chipset performs similar to last years Snapdragon 820 flagship chipset. We’ve already heard and seen a lot of leaks and rumors about the SD 660, and now we have an official announcement date.

via GizmoChina