Earlier this year, Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) began shipping its Snapdragon 835 applications processor for premium smartphones. The chip offered numerous performance, feature, and efficiency improvements over its predecessor, the Snapdragon 821, with an updated design and a transition to Samsung's (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) 10-nanometer LPE manufacturing technology.Chinese website MyDrivers recently published a purported set of specifications of the successor to the Snapdragon 835, called the Snapdragon 845.