Qualcomm begs for Snapdragon attention, doubles processor power

After last year's CES fiasco and the non-launch of a Snapdragon device in June, this is what it's come to: the no really, manufacturers love our platform press release. According to Qualcomm, HTC, LG, ASUS, Samsung and other leading device manufacturers have created more than 30 device designs based on Snapdragon chipsets. No word on when these will come to market though. Sigh. In a more meaningful announcement, Qualcomm claims to have doubled the power of Snapdragon with its new dual-CPU, single chip, QSD8672 running up to 1.5GHz. The chip is designed for low-power pocketable or netbook-style devices and should be out the door for sampling sometime in the first half of 2009. Hear that Intel? AMD's not the only cat looking to soil your Atom sandbox.

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[Ike Turner @ Nov 13th 2008 9:21AM]

SnapDragon vs Tegra : FIGHT!

[maveric101 @ Nov 13th 2008 10:44AM]

does snapdragon have good graphics acceleration? because i know that's one of tegra's strong points. on another note, when are /either/ of these coming to market?

[Ike Turner @ Nov 13th 2008 10:50AM]

Yes Snapdragon has good 3D support. It's based on ATI/AMD 's Xenos tech found in the Xbox360.
The big advantage for Qnapdragon compared to Tegra is that it includes everything (ARM11 CPU, ATI GPU, 3G/HSDPA radio's, GPS, Wifi, Bleuthooh/DVB TVtuner support etc.. etc.) Tegra is only the ARM11 CPU + Geforce GPU.

[AVG @ Nov 13th 2008 9:31AM]

Yeah I bet Intel is really worried.

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LOLZ!

[Danny F. @ Nov 13th 2008 9:32AM]

I'll wait untill they have an actual product out using the chip before I'm colored impressed. Pop it in the the next Tytn-update or xperia-update and we got a deal Qualcomm ;-)

[absinthe party @ Nov 13th 2008 11:28AM]

Pfft... wtf is happening in this picture?

[Akio @ Nov 13th 2008 12:28PM]

I've got no idea, but we need to kill it with fire

[Valicore @ Nov 13th 2008 1:32PM]

Looks like the designers had a little too much absinthe before they started drawing this...

[Ray @ Nov 13th 2008 12:08PM]

Qualcomm has a history of under-performing processors in it's phones (just ask anyone with an htc).

Lets just cross our fingers on this one.

[Ike Turner @ Nov 13th 2008 12:58PM]

The problem is that they are cheap bastards, they don't license everything. Take the Video drivers for example. They licensed the 3D chip designe from ATI but not full drivers support with it. So Basically HTC (or any other ODM) gest screwed cause there's no decent drivers for the chips and they can't do shit about it.

[Wishmaster @ Nov 13th 2008 1:12PM]

@Ike Turner
Wasn't it because of the Broadcom case about technology used for video coding? Since msm7201a they include all drivers but the problem is they don't release any kind of documentation or SDK's for developers so its hard to them to use it.