New Snapdragon-based Dual-CPU Chip by Qualcomm now Underway
By Wilson • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedWith the increased demand for smartphones and other mobile computing devices, there has been hike in the customer’s expectations too. People want wireless devices that have exceptional processing power and integrate with every new technology easily. Analysing this, Qualcomm has announced that it will launch a new QSD8672 chip specially designed for mobile computing. It will be a dual-CPU, single-chip processor based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile platform.
The QSD8672 will offer a high processing speed of 1.5 GHz and will be optimised for longer battery life and support technologies like 3G mobile broadband connectivity. The chip features a small form factor and thus it is an ideal core component to be used in mobile computing devices with a screen size between nine to twelve inches, such as the Samsung NC10. The QSD8672 will simply offer big power in an impressively small package. It will also support GPS, Bluetooth, 1080p high-def video recording/playback and Wi-Fi. Apart from this it will also let users to experience advanced mobile TV technologies such as MediaFLO, DVB-H and ISDB-T. A 2D/3D graphics engine is also integrated with the processor to render WSXGA resolutions.
Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies said, “This new dual-CPU Snapdragon chip demonstrates our long-term commitment to helping our customers develop a wide variety of innovative, data-centric, mobile computing devices. With its exceptional computing power and improved energy efficiency, the QSD8672 chip allows us to enable more advanced devices that are essentially always on, always awake and always connected.”
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