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Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices (hothardware.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the how's-the-cooling dept.

MojoKid writes: Qualcomm held an event in New York City today to demonstrate for the first time its highly anticipated Snapdragon 820 System-on-Chip (SoC). More than just a speed bump and refresh of the Snapdragon 810, Qualcomm says it designed the Snapdragon 820 "from the ground up to be unlike anything else." Behind that marketing spin is indeed an SoC with a custom 64-bit quad-core Kyro processor clocked at up to 2.2GHz. Qualcomm says it delivers up to twice the performance and twice the power efficiency of its predecessor, which is in fact an 8-core chip. Qualcomm officials have quoted 2x the performance of their previous gen Snapdragon 810 in single threaded throughput alone, which is a sizable gain. Efficiency is also being touted here, and according to Qualcomm, the improvements it made to the underlying architecture translate into nearly a third (30 percent) less power consumption. That should help the Snapdragon 820 steer clear of overheating concerns, which is something the 810 wasn't able to do.

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  1. Anyone else by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else remember when Qualcomm used to make lawnmowers?

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  2. Re:Who is their market, currently? by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Informative

    My Moto X has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
    The LG Nexus 5X does too.
    OnePlus One
    A whole bunch of Samsung phones too

    Actually, the majority of the Android phones currently available.

  3. Re:Who is their market, currently? by tlhIngan · · Score: 2

    As we know, Apple uses its own A-series in the iPhones, iPads and iPods. What does Samsung use? That leaves Microsoft, which is one company that uses Qualcomm's processors. Anyone know what the Lumia 950 uses?

    Apple has their own processors.
    Samsung has their own processors

    Everyone else has to use Qualcomm if you want a high end processor, else a MediaTek or RockChip if you want a mid-range processor.

  4. Re:Still Miss Eudora by _merlin · · Score: 2

    I had that issue with an older e-mail client. I worked around it by creating an xinetd service listening on a local TCP port that establishes the TLS connection to the e-mail server using the ncat (from nmap project). The mail client opens a plaintext connection to the local server and it all works nicely.