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Qualcomm shows off mobile processor roadmap

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 15 Sep 2011 1:56 User comments (3)

Qualcomm shows off mobile processor roadmap

Qualcomm has shown off their latest mobile processor roadmap, and it appears your phones are going to get a lot more powerful, and soon.
Snapdragon processors, seen in a majority of today's Android phones will soon see core speeds of 2.5GHz, 67 percent faster than the current leader in the market, the dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon seen in the upcoming Sensation XE.

The "S4" chip, slated for launch in devices in February, will not only have quad-core at 2.5Ghz, but Adreno Graphics, 3D, 1080p HD, and 3G/LTE multimode as standard.

CEO Paul Jacobs says it is not all about speed however (via Lint):



It’s not about how many cores or how many gigabytes, it’s how well you can optimise the system.


Check the rest of the lineup in the picture below:

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3 user comments

116.9.2011 00:15

I like the sound of the next-gen ones...a quadcore 2.5GHZ chip in a phone sounds really nice. The only confusing part is the GPU...usually GPUs have lots of tiny pipelines...telling the core count doesn't really tell us anything if we don't know what kind of core it is.

216.9.2011 02:10

Originally posted by KillerBug:
I like the sound of the next-gen ones...a quadcore 2.5GHZ chip in a phone sounds really nice. The only confusing part is the GPU...usually GPUs have lots of tiny pipelines...telling the core count doesn't really tell us anything if we don't know what kind of core it is.
Ancient Chinese Secret.

319.9.2011 15:15

So what will be the faster quad core for tablets is it QUALCOMM or NVIDIA ?.

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