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In a bid to outdo the high-end performances that are offered by large format processors, Qualcomm Company has conceptualised a brand new mobile processor that is an advanced version of its earlier Snapdragon mobile processor. This earlier version, introduced to the market in the year 2008, consisted of a 1 gigahertz chip and a single core. The new version promises to stir up the business of processing data with the speed at which it stipulates to do being marked at a whopping 2.5 gigahertz. That’s per core because this is a multicore version.
With this new product about to be launched in the market, the challenge to laptop and desktop processors is abundantly clear. Qualcomm aims to bring mobile phones, smart phones and tablets at par with the performance seen in laptops and desktops. The Qualcomm chip, consisting of around 4 cores, will inhabit the next generation smartphones and tablets. Working on handhelds will of course, never be the same again. They would now be able to run 3D games as well as enable video images to be splashed across big screens from the phones, with absolute clarity of picture and sound. All this has been promised to the consumer market by this year itself so that soon mobile users will have all the advantages of the computer in the palm of their hands. This new successor of the Snapdragon has been code-named Krait.
The company will also be offering 4 wireless features with this new product. These are- WiFi, a global positioning system or GPS, Bluetooth and interestingly — an FM radio system. All these features would be available on one SoC. Along with this advantage, the user will also be able to access the near-field communication services which is basically a relatively new technology that allows a customer to run his phone over a reader instead of swiping a card to make purchases. Krait has also assured the more creative and entertainment-seeking users that it would enable the screening of stereoscopic 3D video, allow 3D photography and ensure that everything is played back smoothly. In terms of its competition with computer processors, the new version of the Snapdragon is said to have a 150% greater overall performance accompanied by a 65% lower power usage compared to the ARM-situated CPU cores. With Qualcomm’s conceptualization of the 28 nanometer technology, a radical invention that enables finer circuits to be marked on chips, the creation of this highly adventurous and technologically avant-garde product has been successful. Its earlier version had used a mere 65 nanometer technology. Seems like Qualcomm right now is emboyding Moore’s Law— a scientific prophecy by the former chairman of Intel, Gordon Moore who stated that the chip components would escalate at a double rate every 2 years.
Along with this innovation, Qualcomm has also introduced to the market its new collection of GPUs, called Adreno. As an upgrade on the previous Adreno chip, the new one which is a quad-core Adreno 320, can provide a service which is 15 times more advanced. Without feeding on as much power as the gaming consoles, this product promises to provide its users graphics that are similar in quality to those offered by the consoles.
demo game designed by qualcomm to show off Adreno
The single-core Snapdragon MSM8930 on the other hand provides an in-built modem technology which ensures the cheap process of transference of data networking speeds for smartphones. This speed is marked at around 24 megabits.
All the news about the new inventions was relaeased by Quadcomm at the Mobile World Congress 2010 held in Barcelona earlier this month.
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