It was merely just 3 weeks ago when NVIDIA announced a 1.5 GHz quad-core chipset for smart phones and tablets dubbed Tegra 3. While people were still gawking over that, Texas Instruments retaliated with their own quad-core chipset but with a bang, as theirs was clocked in at staggering 2 Ghz. However, rather ironically, that is all history now, as Qualcomm has made a retaliation as well, only stronger. Their quad-core chipset is clocked at a theoretical maximum of an amazing 2.5 GHz.
The announcement will be made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Qualcomm is set to announce the next-generation of their Snapdragon chipset line, based on a new micro-architecture called “Krait”
The new APQ8064 chipset is faster, runs cooler, and takes up less battery than any Snapdragon before it, meaning that not only will devices based on the new chipset will be excellent in performance, they’ll also be much more power efficient as well.
Things to know:
- Four cores, each capable of running at 2.5GHz
- Qualcomm promises that this new CPU is 12x faster than the first-gen Snapdragons, while still using 75% less power.
- LG’s Optimus 3D may be the first smartphone to do the whole recording-in-3D thing, but that seems pretty likely to become a trend. This chipset can do it out of the box, recording simultaneous 1080p video feeds from two cameras at once.
- As with past Snapdragon chipsets, it’s more than just a CPU: it’s also got WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, FM radio, and support for NFC (for mobile contact-based payments) built-in.
- Last but absolutely not least, this new chipset also comes packed with Qualcomm’s brand new quad-core graphics processor, the Adreno 320. They’re staying a bit light on the details regarding this new GPU, but add that its performance is “fifteen times greater” that of the original Adreno.
However, don’t expect to have a quad-core 2.5GHz processor boasting device in your hands anytime soon, as Qualcomm is only creating the hype as of now. Samples of this chipset won’t even start reaching manufacturers until early next year, meaning that there’s a long wait before you actually see this chipset in action.
via TechCrunch
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