Eager to put the performance issues of the Snapdragon 810 behind, Qualcomm has announced its next flagship processor – Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. The chipset is expected to debut in most flagship smartphones scheduled to debut in 2016 including the Samsung Galaxy S7. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor is the first ever SoC to be commercially […]
Along with the Snapdragon 617 and Snapdragon 430, Qualcomm announced the next generation fast charging technology – the Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0. It would be available in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430, 617, 618, 620 and 820 processors; it will start showing up in mobile devices – smartphones and tablets by 2016. The Qualcomm Quick Charge […]
Qualcomm has officially announced two new midrange processors – the Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430. Both chipset versions support the freshly announced Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 and are fashioned to deliver high-end performance and experiences in affordable, high- and mid-tier devices. Commenting on the new midrange snapdragon processors, senior vice president, product […]
Popular smartphone chipset maker, Qualcomm has announced its foray into the advancing consumer drones markets with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight. The platform is optimised for the consumer drones and robotics application. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight is a 58 x 40mm highly integrated board based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC and also adds advanced drone […]
Qualcomm has confirmed its next flagship SoC – the Snapdragon 820 will make use of the custom-built, highly optimised cores designed for heterogenous computing called ‘Kryo’ instead of the custom ARM cores used on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is designed to provide innovative user experiences for premium-tier mobile devices and […]
Qualcomm has announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 – a pretty much slightly faster version of the Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 with integrated LTE and 64-bit capability. The new chipset is targeted at midrange devices like its predecessor. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 is an octa-core (8 cores) processor with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz […]
Qualcomm has refreshed its entry-level and lower midrange processor category with the addition of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 412. Both the Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 and Snapdragon 212 processors are upgrades to the Snapdragon 410 and Snapdragon 210; they both feature increased speed support, higher frequency CPU, improved GPU performance and improved experience. […]
US chip maker, Qualcomm has announced a new technology that lets all-metal rocking mobile devices charge wirelessly called the Qualcomm WiPower. Qualcomm’s new technology is based on the new-ish wireless charging standard – Rezence rather than established standard names likes Qi or PMA. According to Qualcomm, it has cracked the code which now lets metal […]
Qualcomm is already working on the Snapdragon 818 which is expected to succeed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. The company didn’t quite hit the heights it expected with the Snapdragon 810 SoC and the high profiled over heating issue didn’t see the chipset gain worldwide traction. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 818 is a 10-core (Deca-core) processor which […]
Qualcomm has displayed its Quick Charge 2.0 technology on video in a bid to show how much faster it is in charging smartphones batteries. The video starred three Motorola Nexus 6 smartphones which had their 3200mAh batteries reduced to 0%. The three Nexus 6 smartphones were charged with three different chargers. The first of the […]