Tuesday, 8 January 2013
CES 2013: Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800 series
Posted on 02:33 by Maria Scott
Close on the heels of the NVIDIA Tegra 4
announcement, Qualcomm has also announced a refresh to its line-up of
Snapdragon system-on-chips. Qualcomm announced that it is going to
retire the S1, S2, S3 and S4 series of mobile chips and new set of chips
will go by the new nomenclature - Snapdragon 200, Snapdragon 400,
Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800. The new series is expected to improve
power and speed as compared to current generation of Qualcomm
Snapdragon chips.
As you may have already deducted from
the naming convention, the Snapdragon 600 and 800 will represent the
high-performance chips whereas the Snapdragon 200 and 400 will be seen
in low-end budget mobile devices.
Snapdragon 600 will be running four Krait 300 cores (clock speeds going up to 1.9 GHz). Krait is the codename for Qualcomm’s
custom ARM v7 microprocessor. The 600 will be around 40 percent more
powerful than the S4 Pro at the same time consuming comparatively lesser
battery. It will house the Adreno 320 GPU. We will start seeing this
chip in mobile devices by Q2 2013.
The Snapdragon 800 will be the flagship
SoC for 2013. It will be running four Krait 400 cores which are based on
the 28nm manufacturing process. The Krait 400 can run to speeds up to
2.3 GHz in the quad configuration and its synchronous SMP architecture
will provide dynamic power sensing and control for peak performance per
core. The Snapdragon 800 will house an Adreno 330 GPU, support for
display resolutions upto 2560x2048, a faster 4G LTE Cat 4 modem within
the SoC. The presence of an LTE radio on the SoC is a definite plus over
the Tegra 4 which does not include an LTE radio on the SoC, but it can
be added optionally. Performance improvement of the Snapdragon 800 over
the S4 Pro is claimed to be over 74 per cent which is quite impressive
on paper. The Snapdragon 800 processors will be seen in commercial
mobile devices in mid-2013.
"With the overwhelming success of our
previous Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, our mobile processors have
emerged as the platform of choice for high-end mobile devices," said
Steve Mollenkopf, president and chief operating officer of Qualcomm.
"With more than 50 design wins already secured with the first products
of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and 800 processors, we are advancing our
vision and setting the standard for excellence in mobile computing."
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/CES-2013-Qualcomm-announces-Snapdragon-200-400_12979.html
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/CES-2013-Qualcomm-announces-Snapdragon-200-400_12979.html
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