Qualcomm in talks with Honor to supply chips, Honor hopes to become China’s top smartphone brand

Just last month, Huawei announced the sale of its Honor smartphone business to a consortium based in Shenzhen, China. It wasn’t longs before rumors began swirling that the smartphone brand would launch a flagship phone featuring the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. The latest report adds to that same front, reporting that Qualcomm and Honor have already been in discussions of supplying Qualcomm chips for Honor devices. In the report, a source close to Qualcomm pointed out that Honor and the chipmaker have already been in talks to supply chipsets for future Honor phones. Honor is...