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Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 630, Snapdragon 660 chips for mid-range devices

Qualcomm is updating its Snapdragon 600 series lineup with two new chips* that the company says brings camera, audio, video, and connectivity improvements. The Snapdragon 630 and Snapdragon 660 include an updated modem, improved camera image signal processing, and updated CPU and graphics cores. Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 660 offers up to 20 percent better […]

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Qualcomm announces new 600 and 400 tier processor chips with 800 tier features

Chipmaker Qualcomm is ready to launch four new chips for the 600 and 400 tier Snapdragon processors. The new 415 chipsets will start appearing in mid-ranged smartphones by the first half of this year with the rest arriving in the second half. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 620 and 618 will feature 64-bit ARM Cortex A-72 CPUs and […]

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IFC6410 Snapdragon 600 dev board now supports Fedora, Ubuntu

The IFC6410 Pico-ITX board is a tiny computer-on-a-board powered by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor as the Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One M7 smartphones. It sells for $149 and it’s aimed at developers, hobbyists, and others interested in testing their hardware or software designs… but thanks to a few recent developments, you can […]

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Pick up a Snapdragon 600 dev board for $75 (by May 18th)

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 processor made quite a splash in 2013, when it was chosen to power a number of popular smartphones including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One (M7). Now you can get a single-board computer with a Snapdragon 600 chip for just $75. InForce Computing is running a sale on its IFC6410 Pico-ITX board. […]

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Qubi is a Snapdragon 600 powered Android TV box (Crowdfunding)

There are dozens of Android-powered media center boxes on the market, most with low-power ARM processors from companies such as Rockchip, Amlogic, or Allwinner. But the Qubi Media Center is an Android TV box with the same chip found in the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones. The Qubi is powered by a […]

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Samsung Galaxy Note II with Snapdragon 600 shows up in China

Samsung’s Galaxy Note II has been available in the US since August, sporting a 5.5 inch touchscreen display, a Samsung Exynos 4 quad-core processor, and 2GB of RAM. While the company’s expected to introduce a new Galaxy Note III soon, it looks like Samsung may not be done with the Note II just yet. A […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, 800 quad-core chips coming by mid-2013

Chip maker Qualcomm is giving its Snapdragon processor line a bit of a performance boost… and a new set of names. Gone are the Snapdragon S3 and S4 processors for smartphones and tablets, and instead we’ll start to see Qualcomm Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800 chips later this year. The higher the number, the […]