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What exactly can the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 offer?

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Qualcomm has formally unveiled its newest and by far, the most powerful smartphone processor – the Snapdragon 810. With it comes a number of firsts in terms of processing power and the company has shed some light on the features that it will bring to smartphones.

We’ve already heard of the Snapdragon 810 used at developer devices but it’s only now that made its way to an official smartphone. We’re talking about the LG G Flex 2 that was just unveiled at the ongoing CES 2015. According to Qualcomm, this 64-bit processor offers the following features:

  • Better data speeds
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster and more organized processing
  • Wireless 4K video streaming using Qualcomm’s prototype adapter
  • Seamless LTE to Wi-Fi call switching and vice versa
  • Wireless docking so that you can work on your device and the desktop at the same time
  • Fluence Pro that filters noise from areas you chose graphically on your screen to avoid the background traffic noise

To further understand these features, you may watch more of their videos.

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Samsung’s first 20nm Exynos Octa-Core processor

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The new SoC that powers the latest metal-clad Samsung Galaxy Alpha is a Samsung Exynos 5430 Octa SoC, the first SoC coming from Samsung’s 20nm HKMG process. What is its difference from the 28nm HKMG process? Read on to find out.

To start, it is an octa-core big.LITTLE processor design with four 1.8Ghz Cortex A15 and four 1.3Ghz Cortex A7 CPU, with a Mali T628MP6 GPU. This has been done before with its predecessor, the Exynos 5420 SoC. The improvement is in the manufacturing process, as mentioned, from 28nm to 20nm.

According to AnandTech, here are a few of the critical changes:

• Instead of a gate-first approach for the high-k metal gate formation, the gate is now the last part of the transistor to be formed. This improves performance because the characteristics of the gate are no longer affected by significant high/low temperatures during manufacturing.

• The lower-k dielectric in the interconnect layers reduce capacitance between the metal and therefore increase maximum clock speed/performance and reduce power consumption.

• Improved silicon straining techniques should also improve drive current in the transistors, which can drive higher performance and lower power consumption.

For users, this means a more powerful processor with longer battery life. We expect to see this SoC powering future Samsung devices and other OEMs. For now, the Samsung Galaxy Alpha gets the first dibs.

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Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and 808

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Qualcomm is going in for the kill as the company announced two new powerful additions to their 64-bit mobile chip lineup, namely the octa-core Snapdragon 810 and hexa-core Snapdragon 808.

Of the two, the Snapdragon 810 sports the better feature set consisting of four Cortex-A53 processors which handles the mundane tasks and another set of Cortex-A57 chips which takes care of the resource-heavy apps.

Speaking of performance, the Snapdragon 810 will also benefit from the new Adreno 430 GPU which, according to Qualcomm, is 30% faster than Adreno 420 or around 80% faster than Adreno 330, the GPU we often see on flagship devices. Furthermore, the octa-core SoC supports displays with 4K resolution, LPDDR4 RAM, as well as Cat 6 LTE-Advance connectivity.

Despite of being the modest between the two new chipsets, the Snapdragon 808 is by no means a push-over. It has a quartet of A53 chips which is complemented by a pair of Cortex-A57 processors and Adreno 418 which should come in handy when the going gets tough.

The Snapdragon 808 inherits some of the qualities of its more powerful counterpart such as LTE Category 6/7 modem and support for MIMO which brings improved wireless transfer rate over Wi-Fi. On the downside, the hexa-core only supports 2K displays and LPDDR3 RAM which is still pretty respectable in today’s standards.

According to Qualcomm, consumers can expect these new Snapdragon SoCs to start making their way in to various flagship devices starting the first half of 2015. Of course, there’s no point of making a 64-bit SoC if the ecosystem can’t support it which leads us to think that Google may announce a 64-bit Android OS in the near future, perhaps in Google I/O 2014?

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Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and 808

Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Qualcomm is going in for the kill as the company announced two new powerful additions to their 64-bit mobile chip lineup, namely the octa-core Snapdragon 810 and hexa-core Snapdragon 808.

Of the two, the Snapdragon 810 sports the better feature set consisting of four Cortex-A53 processors which handles the mundane tasks and another set of Cortex-A57 chips which takes care of the resource-heavy apps.

Speaking of performance, the Snapdragon 810 will also benefit from the new Adreno 430 GPU which, according to Qualcomm, is 30% faster than Adreno 420 or around 80% faster than Adreno 330, the GPU we often see on flagship devices. Furthermore, the octa-core SoC supports displays with 4K resolution, LPDDR4 RAM, as well as Cat 6 LTE-Advance connectivity.

Despite of being the modest between the two new chipsets, the Snapdragon 808 is by no means a push-over. It has a quartet of A53 chips which is complemented by a pair of Cortex-A57 processors and Adreno 418 which should come in handy when the going gets tough.

The Snapdragon 808 inherits some of the qualities of its more powerful counterpart such as LTE Category 6/7 modem and support for MIMO which brings improved wireless transfer rate over Wi-Fi. On the downside, the hexa-core only supports 2K displays and LPDDR3 RAM which is still pretty respectable in today’s standards.

According to Qualcomm, consumers can expect these new Snapdragon SoCs to start making their way in to various flagship devices starting the first half of 2015. Of course, there’s no point of making a 64-bit SoC if the ecosystem can’t support it which leads us to think that Google may announce a 64-bit Android OS in the near future, perhaps in Google I/O 2014?

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