Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 800 and 600 quad-core processors

Hopefully you have not turn into too accustomed to Qualcomm's naming system for its Snapdragon brand of mobile processors, because immediately the corporate determined to offer its chips a brand new naming scheme. Whereas the Snapdragon household used to go by the S1, S2, S3 and S4 identifiers, Qualcomm has now determined to go along with Snapdragon 200, Snapdragon four hundred, Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 names. As one might expect, the Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 are the excessive-finish members of the new group.

The Snapdragon 600 will function a quad-core Krait 300 CPU that gives speeds of up to 1.9GHz and a brand new, speedier Adreno 320 graphics chip. Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 600 will offer a forty p.c performance improvement over the Snapdragon S4 Professional, and that it will accomplish that utilizing less power.

Moving on up the power chain, we have the Snapdragon 800. This factor's acquired shiny new Krait 400 CPU cores that may attain speeds of to 2.3GHz every in addition to an Adreno 330 GPU. Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 800 will offer as much as 75 percent better efficiency in comparison with the old Snapdragon S4 Pro, including that the brand new Adreno 330 has more than twice the performance of the Adreno 320. Additionally packed into the Snapdragon 800 is a new LTE Cat four modem, the ability to seize and play again UltraHD video and assist for display resolutions all the way in which as much as 2560x2048. Thankfully for the entire batteries out there that may be shaking at all of that power, the Snapdragon 800 additionally switches to 28nm Excessive Efficiency for cell (also called HPm) know-how node for low power consumption.

So when will you be capable of begin shopping for merchandise with these shiny new chips in 'em? Well, you possibly can put that pockets away for now. While each the Snapdragon 600 and Snapdragon 800 are at present sampling, the primary Snapdragon 600-geared up client devices aren't anticipated till Q2 2013, while the Snapdragon 800 hardware should start appearing in the course of this year. Which will seem to be a ways off, but hey, that additionally means that you have loads of time to assemble up the money to pay for all of this new silicon. We'll give you a shout once we hear extra about the availability of those upcoming devices.