The flagships released next year will adopt Snapdragon 845 processor, bezel-less screen, 3D facial ID, Xiaomi MI7 and Samsung Galaxy S9 will be two representatives. In July, Qualcomm has exposed its own unreleased flagship processor, SDM845, Snapdragon 845, as the upgraded version of Snapdragon 835, SD845 will be built based on 7nm TSMC, continuing using Octa core, Adreno 630 GPU, it may be released by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. And it will be in mass production in 2018.
This year, Samsung has caught the first smartphone to release Snapdragon 835 processor, and it has got large orders in the first period, so does Snapdragon 845. According to @Ice Universe on Weibo, the first orders of Snapdragon 845 has given to Galaxy S9, the North America Communications company has finished the contract, there is no many orders for others.
So according to previous practice, besides Samsung, Xiaomi has also become one of big partners of Snapdragon 835, and each Xiaomi flagship in the past has got the first Snapdragon flagship used, Snapdragon 845 processor will be no exception.
According to the time, Xiaomi MI MIX 2 will not catch to use Snapdragon 845 processor, so it may be Xiaomi MI7 released next year, but we can exclude that Xiaomi new product series will catch it.
Xiaomi MI7 and Samsung Galaxy S9 will have different release date, in theory, Xiaomi will get enough stock.