According to Qualcomm progress, the successor of Snapdragon 835 is Snapdragon 845, as for rumored Snapdragon 836, maybe it is abandoned, they want to upgrade directly in processor. Now a netizen @Grass on Weibo leaked Xiaomi has entered Snapdragon 845 V2 version verification, and the progress on this processor is very fast.
In April this year the inner core based on Android O has been released, by the end of October first Snapdragon 845 phone has been test well almost, so the basic functions have been approved, just go into the optimization step.
In addition, the leaked news is that Xiaomi MI7 will start to test fully in November, and until February, 2018, Xiaomi MI7 final test version will be made. Besides using Snapdragon 845 processor, it will use OLED screen, but it will still not offer under glass fingerprint scanner.
Previously from Taiwan product line, Xiaomi MI7 will be powered by Snapdragon 845 processor, adopting 6 inch OLED screen from Samsung (18:9), meanwhile, it can also support wireless charging, the body still is dual glass, but the price will increase to 3,000 yuan, $500, for RAM 6GB at least.
As for other details of Snapdragon 845, currently, Snapdragon 845 still use Samsung 10nm LPE, Big core of CPU is based on Cortex A75, it uses GPU Adreno 630, integrated 1.2Gbps X20 lite. Therefore, wait for the performance of Snapdragon 845 to check how powerful Xiaomi MI7 is.