Qualcomm is expected to secure the bulk of chipset orders for high-end Android smartphones in 2016 as vendors including Samsung Electronics, HTC, Sony Mobile Communications, LG Electronics and Xiaomi Technology have decided to adopt the company's Snapdragon 820 CPUs, according to industry sources.

Qualcomm has managed to restore clients' confidence with the launch of its Snapdragon 820, which has addressed the overheating issue of the predecessor the Snapdragon 810, while also further improving the performance and battery life, said the sources.

So far, the Snapdragon 820 has won design-in in more than 70 models of smartphones and terminal-end devices with the first wave of models to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016, added the sources.

Among the new devices, the flagship models of Samsung Electronics and HTC are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2016, while those from LG and Sony Mobile will come in the second quarter, indicated the sources.

The Snapdragon 820 comes with a quad-core architecture and is being built using Samsung's second-generation 14nm FinFET LPP (Low Power Plus) process node.