Category: Processors

Qualcomm Adds 4 New Snapdragon 400/600 Processors

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A month after Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile processor, the chipmaker followed it up by announcing four new members of the lower-tier Snapdragon family which are expected to make its way to mobile devices starting on the second half of this year.

Two of the four new SoCs that were launched belong to the Snapdragon 400 series namely the Snapdragon 415 and Snapdragon 425; both of which boasts eight (8) Cortex-A53 processing cores which are divided in two groups with varying clock speeds and are accompanied by an Adreno 405 GPU.

The other two processors, on the other hand, belong to the Snapdragon 600 family which comprises Snapdragon 618 and the Snapdragon 620. Both of these SoCs are equipped with a quad-core Cortex-A53 processors clocked 1.2Ghz which are assigned to take care of the menial tasks.

When the going gets tough, a set of new 1.8Ghz Cortex-A72 chips will do the dirty work for the new Snapdragon 600 processors. The Snapdragon 618 are equipped with two, while the Snapdragon 620 was endowed with four.

Qualcomm LTE Modem

All of Qualcomm’s new processor are LTE-capable, albeit the Snapdragon 415 only has Qualcomm X5 LTE module which is peaks at 150Mbps DL and 50Mbps UL, while the rest of the gang are equipped with a Qualcomm X8 LTE modem which are capable of download and upload speeds of up to 300Mbps and 100Mbps respectively.

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Related: What exactly can the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 offer?

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Intel Atom (Cherry Trail) Revealed, Supports LTE-A

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In line with the announcement of the new Broadwell-U line up, Intel also took the wraps off the new Intel Atom codenamed Cherry Trail.

Intel Cherry Trail

Unfortunately, unlike with the new Broadwell-U family, there were not a lot of details about Cherry Trail that were mentioned during the announcement.

The chipmaker did, however, state that the Bay Trail’s successor will play nicely with their XMM726x wireless module which means that upcoming Intel-powered smartphones/tablets will support LTE-Advance connectivity out of the box, like the newly-announced Lenovo P90.

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On top of that, Intel also mentioned that their new system-on-chip will be imbued with new technologies such as Intel Context Aware, RealSense and Integrated Sensor Solution.

Intel is anticipating that Cherry Trail-powered devices will start to hit the shelves on the first half of 2015.

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Intel Atom (Cherry Trail) Revealed, Supports LTE-A

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In line with the announcement of the new Broadwell-U line up, Intel also took the wraps off the new Intel Atom codenamed Cherry Trail.

Intel Cherry Trail

Unfortunately, unlike with the new Broadwell-U family, there were not a lot of details about Cherry Trail that were mentioned during the announcement.

The chipmaker did, however, state that the Bay Trail’s successor will play nicely with their XMM726x wireless module which means that upcoming Intel-powered smartphones/tablets will support LTE-Advance connectivity out of the box, like the newly-announced Lenovo P90.

Lenovo-P90

On top of that, Intel also mentioned that their new system-on-chip will be imbued with new technologies such as Intel Context Aware, RealSense and Integrated Sensor Solution.

Intel is anticipating that Cherry Trail-powered devices will start to hit the shelves on the first half of 2015.

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Intel 5th Generation Processors (Broadwell-U) Launched

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The long wait is finally over as the chipmaker formally announces the 5th Generation Intel Core processor lineup which includes a total of 14 new processors under the Core i3, i5 and i7, as well as three new Pentium and Celeron chips.

Based on 14nm manufacturing process, these new 5th-Gen Intel processors are touted to bring 22-percent improvement in 3D graphics performance, an hour-and-half more battery life, and 50% faster video conversion than Haswell-U processors.

Intel Broadwell U

The graphics performance improvement is, in large part, credited to the new HD Graphics 5500, HD Graphics 6000 and Intel Iris Graphics 6100 that can be found on the new Core i3, i5 and i7 chips under the Broadwell-U product line.

In addition, Intel has also added some of its home-brewed technologies in to the mix, such as RealSense and Wireless Display (WiDi) Version 5.1 which are both geared for wireless and “more natural and interactive user experiences”.

Here’s the full list of new 5th Generation Intel Core processors:

Intel expects that consumers will start seeing computing devices running on Broadwell-U as early as this month. Meanwhile, Cherry Trail-powered devices are expected to hit the shelves within the first half of this year.

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Samsung to Launch First Smartphone w/ 4GB RAM

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2015 may very well be the year of 4GB smartphones, at least that’s what the rumor mill seems to be pointing out with the recent leak of the Sony Xperia Z3X and now the speculation around the Samsung Galaxy S6 which, judging by their recent announcement, could be the first smartphone to launch with 4GB of RAM.

The speculation arose when Samsung announced that the mass production of industry’s first low-power double-data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with 8GB capacity which is based on the company’s 20nm process.

Samsung LPDDR4

According to Samsung, their new LPDDR4 DRAM will be two-times faster than a “typical DDR3 RAM” for PC and, in the case of the 2GB package, is expected to be 40% more power efficient than its LPDDR3 counterpart.

Furthermore, the South Korean giant stated that apart from lowering the operating voltage to 1.1V, the company’s new 8GB LPDDR4 DRAMs can support Ultra-High Definition video recording and playback, not to mention continuous shooting of 20MP+ pictures.

Although Samsung hasn’t really confirmed that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 (and most likely the Galaxy Note 5 too) will sport the next-generation DRAM, I think that we can all agree that the tech giant will not allow their two franchise centerpieces to be left behind in the specs race, especially since they’ve openly announced that they’s started providing LPDDR4 modules to other device manufacturers starting this month.

Sony Xperia Z3X

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