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Qualcomm Ups a Game with Faster Smartphone Processor
Pick any of a smartphones launched this year as well as chances have been it has the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in it. The Snapdragon chips, that can run during up to 1 GHz, have been during a core of inclination such as Google’s Nexus One, HTC’s Incredible as well as a HTC Evo 4G.
Now Qualcomm is removing ready to deliver dual-CPU chipsets which boost a speed to 1.2 GHz as well as 1.5 GHz. The chipsets, called MSM826, MSM8660 as well as QSD8672, have been expected to uncover up in stores by a finish of a year. Handset manufacturers have been now conceptualizing products formed upon the processors, says Qualcomm.
The twin cores as well as aloft estimate speeds will allow for improved multimedia opening. The chipsets additionally embody the graphics estimate section with 3-D as well as 2-D increase in speed engines for improved rendering, 1080p video encoding as well as decoding capabilities, as well as integrated low-power GPS. They can await 24-bit 1280 x 800 fortitude displays, says Qualcomm.
As smartphones get some-more desirous in their enterprise to suggest the video as well as web experience identical to that of PCs, there’s larger need for increased estimate energy. Last month, Adobe showed an early chronicle of a Flash Player 10.1 for the Android handling complement. Flash Player 10.1 upon Nexus One can arrangement video as well as animation unmatched by most alternative smartphones. But a record additionally requires more estimate energy than stream inclination can suggest. In Wired.com’s tests, a Nexus One’s 1 GHz Snapdragon processor seemed indolent as well as struggled to describe Flash sites quickly using Flash Player 10.1. Adobe has pronounced it is anticipating the newer era of smartphones will shift which knowledge.
Qualcomm is positively perplexing to inspire it. At a Computex traffic show in Taipei, Taiwan, Qualcomm is display the operation of brand-new Snapdragon-powered devices — not all of them phones. Among them are Acer’s newly launched Liquid as well as neoTouch smartphones, Dell’s Streak 5-inch Android inscription, Huawei’s S7 inscription and Lenovo’s LePhone smartphone.