Qualcomm is still claiming the Snapdragon 810 doesn’t overheat

Back in December, reports began to emerge claiming that Qualcomm’s newest top-of-the-line processor, the Snapdragon 810, was suffering problems with overheating – problems that were causing some manufacturers to think twice about including it in their next-generation flagships. Samsung was said to have dropped the 810 from its new Galaxy S6 as a direct result of these issues; the launch of the OnePlus 2 was rumored to have been pushed back for the same reason; and most recently, the rollout of the LG G4 with a hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, rather than the 810, has been widely assumed to be a result of the same problems. But according to Qualcomm, the issues with its new chip never existed. In an interview with Forbes, the company’s vice-president of marketing, Tim McDonough, said: “The rumors are rubbish, there was not an overheating problem with the Snapdragon 810 in commercial devices.”