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Today Intel has announced its Silvermont architecture which reportedly will be the basis for the new mobile chips from this company. Chips based on this architecture will offer greater performance and better power consumption in mobile devices. The next generation Merrifield smartphone chips, based on this architecture, will offer performance that is at par with Intel’s Clover Trail+ albeit with just one-fifth of the total power consumption. The chip is capable of providing up to eight processing cores as opposed to the existing Atom chips which can only provide a maximum of two cores.

Silvermont “Bay Trail” chips, which will be exclusively manufactured for tablets and smartphones, will make use of two to four processing cores. Intel will become the first semiconductor company that ships mobile processors made on the 22nm fabrication process, chips that are developed on this process are said to improve performance by as much as three times. It remains to be seen how and exactly when Qualcomm responds to this development, perhaps they’ve already got something along the same lines hidden up their sleeves. [Image via AndroidPolice]

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Qualcomm’s been doing very well lately, and most of those chips it builds are for mobile devices that demand a lot of data to serve their owners’ needs — and as more and more folks jump on the smartphone bandwagon, the demand for data will continue to grow exponentially. Today at Qualcomm’s What’s Next in Mobile event in Santa Clara, California, the company told us more about its plan to help build a network that’ll be able to serve up the data all its SoC’s need. The goal is to give us 1000 times the capacity of what we currently have. One of the key parts, as Qualcomm sees it, is small cell base stations in homes, offices and retail spaces working in tandem with the large cell towers that currently adorn so many roofs and mountain tops — the same thing ex-FCC head honcho Julian Genachowski talked about last year.

You see, macrocells (read: towers) can blanket wide areas in signal, but they struggle to penetrate the innards of buildings, which is where small cells come in handy. For those who aren’t familiar, small cell base stations like femtocells and picocells have been around for years, helping to boost cell signal in small areas by hooking into a local wired network. Until now, these small cells have served as a small-scale supplement to macro networks, but Qualcomm CTO Matt Grob sees them comprising a much bigger chunk of the network of the future. According to him, there are a few issues with using them in an expanded role, however.

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QUALCOMM has certainly been successful with its existing Snapdragon 600 platform. The Snapdragon 600 showed up in a number of high-end smartphones and other devices including the GALAXY S 4, HTC One, and a number of other devices. That Snapdragon 600 success doesn’t mean QUALCOMM isn’t looking ahead to its next generation high-end SoC.

QUALCOMM senior project manager Yufei Wang was on hand this week at a media event held in Beijing, China. During that event, the project manager confirmed that the Snapdragon 800 would be entering mass production in late May. The project manager was willing to confirm that the Snapdragon 800 was going into mass production, he offered no details on what devices consumers can expect to see the new SoC used in.

QUALCOMM also declined to allow anyone in attendance at the meeting event to run benchmarks on prototype mobile devices using the new 800. However, the manufacturer did indicate that benchmarks will be available in June. Hallmarks of the new Snapdragon 800 include a more powerful Krait 400 architecture allowing the processor operating at up to 2.3 GHz.

The SoC is also built with robust power management capabilities, including the ability to operate the four cores on different core frequencies. That means if you only need one or two cores running at full 2.3 GHz, the other cores can sit idle to save power. Snapdragon 800 also uses a new Adreno 330 graphics processor supporting 30 FPS 4K playback.

[via Engadget]

QUALCOMM Snapdragon 800 tipped for production in late May is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Qualcomm has come out with its Q2 2013 quarterly earnings, and things are looking pretty mixed for the chip maker. The company posted a revenue of $6.1 billion, which is up from $6.02 billion the previous quarter, and up a whopping 24% from the same quarter last year. However, net income took a 16% dip from last year, down to $1.87 billion.

The company’s operating income came in at $1.88 billion, which is up 24% from a year ago, but it’s down from $2.1 billion during the previous quarter. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said that the company “delivered another strong quarter as the worldwide adoption of smartphones continues.”

The company launched its new Snapdragon 600 and 800 chipsets during the quarter, which are being put to use most-notably in the US version of the Samsung GALAXY S 4 and the HTC First “Facebook phone.” Jacobs says that the company is “seeing strong traction” with the processors, and they “expect healthy growth in 3G and 3G/4G multimode devices around the world.”

As for shipments of Qualcomm chipsets, MSM-model chip shipments were at 173 million units for the quarter, which is up 14% from the same quarter last year, and down 5% from the previous quarter. As for Q3 2013, Qualcomm expects to bring in between $5.8 billion and $6.3 billion, and expects to ship between 163 million and 173 million MSM chips.

Qualcomm rakes in $6.12 billion in revenue during Q2 2013 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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With Pantech on the rise in not only South Korea but here in the USA as well, it’s only a little surprising to find them teasing their next-generation smartphone “Vega Iron” with a processor more powerful than the GALAXY S 4. Both the Samsung GALAXY S 4 and the HTC One are coming to the public with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, a quad-core processor that’s easily one of the most powerful on the market today. To outdo such a move, the Pantech Vega Iron will be pumping up with the Snapdragon 800, a processor we’ve only seen in the lab before today.

News of the Vega Iron comes from South Korea with word that the smartphone could launch as early as next week. Of course with the announcement coming next week as well, we must take a wild guess and say that it’s not the actual store availability that’s coming next week, but the announcement only. Along with this tip comes a suggestion that the Vega will not be rounded off as its predecessors have been, but a sharp rectangular visage – maybe even bringing some “Nokia-esque” color casings with it as well.

Under the hood it’s suggested that the Pantech Vega Iron will be bringing a massive 5-inch display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. This beast is said to be powered by a rather big 2150mAh battery while it features a 13 megapixel camera on its back. Inside you’ll find what some sources suggest will be the Snapdragon 600 while other suggest the Snapdragon 800, both of these being quad-core processors of note, and in either case a 2GB bit of RAM to back it all up.

Have a peek in the timeline below and get pumped up for this release – everybody’s joining in on the massive smartphone with powerful processor party! Everyone in the whole entire world, for sure!

[via MyDrivers]

Pantech Vega Iron busts out to break down GALAXY S 4 and HTC One is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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