Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon Wear 1200 chipset at MWC Shanghai. The Snapdragon Wear 1200 comes with built-in LTE and is aimed at entry level wearable and IoT devices. It is targeted at activity trackers for kids, pets and more.
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According to latest report, Qualcomm is making its first 10-core CPU just like the MediaTek’s new deca-core Helio X20 series processor.
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The final giveaway of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Powerful Processors series is coming to an end. With the contest spanning just over three weeks, we are happy to say that the response has been nothing short of stunning, and that says a lot about the phone and the processor inside it. We have gone through thousands and thousands of entries and tweets to pick a winner for this contest, are you ready to find out if you are the lucky one?
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While the rest of the world is just warming up to the idea of LTE, Samsung has gone ahead and announced the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A for Korea with high data speeds upto 150 Mbps. And anything with LTE in it, is usually powered by one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips and the Galaxy S4 LTE-A is no exception. Powering the high speed phone is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC which blazed through benchmark tests that we ran recently. The flagship top tier chip is powering the Galaxy S4 and its LTE-A chip by providing the promised speeds of up to 150 Mbps.
It is a well known fact that Qualcomm is one of the leading chip providers for the Windows RT ecosystem as well as the Windows Phone ecosystem. At the Computex event in Taipei, they have gone ahead and announced that their Snapdragon 800 series of powerful high end chipsets will include support for the Windows RT 8.1 platform. Powered by quad core processors with upto 2.2 GHz clock speeds per core, this marks a huge upgrade from the yesteryear dual core S4 plus chipsets that were used for the first Windows RT tablets, like the Dell XPS 10 for example. The Adreno 330 graphics is supposed to offer even greater graphics performance, and with additional support of in-built LTE and USB 3.0, the performance and feature gains for the Windows RT 8.1 are massive.
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Qualcomm, one of the leading chip manufacturers for mobile devices, has just unveiled a new variant of the Snapdragon 400 chipset, with support for Quad Core processors and multi mode 3G/4G LTE connectivity. This move enables Qualcomm to capture some of the lost low-end chip marketshare that has been recently been inundated with chipsets from companies like MediaTek. The MSM8926 chip, as it is codenamed, adds support for quad core Cortex A7 processors and mainly, multi mode 3G/4G LTE connectivity, which will enable mass market devices to sport LTE modems at very low prices.
Qualcomm has announced 4 new games optimized for the Snapdragon processors. The Snapdragon Game Pack features more than 100 games for Snapdragon-enabled, Android-based smartphones and tablets. Continue reading “Qualcomm adds new games to Snapdragon Game Pack”
