It's no secret Sony's smartphone division is struggling, with staff cuts and a recent report suggesting the company may be planning to sell its Xperia mobile division.
However, the brand could be looking to save the Xperia brand by moving to low cost CPUs for its low and mid range phones, meaning less reliance on chipset goliath Qualcomm.
Low price processors
Sony's next flagship smartphone is the heavily rumoured Xperia Z4, which will likely sport a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 CPU, which was corroborated in the Digitimes piece.
We expected to see the Xperia Z4 at Mobile World Congress in February but Sony has yet to announce a press conference at the event, meaning we may have to wait until later in the year.
Meanwhile Samsung is rumoured to be going on step further and dropping Qualcomm as a manufacturer of its flagship chipsets.
Qualcomm previously said it has lost a deal to supply chips for a "large customer's flagship device" but the company refused to comment on which customer the deal referred to.
It suggests Samsung won't be looking toward Qualcomm for the chipset inside the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S6 or the Galaxy S Edge devices, and instead will use its own Exynos processors to power them.
- For a full look at the Xperia Z4 rumours so far check out our round up.
