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Qualcomm updates its mid-range chips with Snapdragon 653, 626, and 427

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 and 821 processors may be powering some of the highest-performance Android smartphones of 2016. But the company also has a range of chips for less expensive devices, including the Snapdragon 400 and 600 series processors. Now Qualcomm is updating those chip families with three new processors aimed at entry-level and mid-range devices. […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 chip with ARM Cortex-A73 CPU cores leaked

Qualcomm may be developing one of the first processors to use ARM’s new Cortex-A73 architecture. Details about an unannounced Qualcomm 653 chip have been posted on Chinese social network Weibo. If the specs are accurate, we’re looking at an octa-core processor with four 2 GHz ARM Cortex-A73 CPU cores, four 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 cores, […]