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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 chip has crazy-fast graphics (by phone, tablet standards)

Qualcomm is bringing at least two new high-end processors to market this year. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core chip is already available, and powers top-tier devices including the HTC One smartphone and the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Snapdragon 800 chip which Qualcomm started showing off in January hasn’t yet made it […]

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Windows RT 8.1 coming this year to tablets with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chips

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor is a multi-core processor which supports speeds up to 2.2 GHz. It’s expected to be one of the fastest ARM-based chips to ship this year. Earlier this year the company showed off prototype tablets demonstrating the chip’s Android gaming performance. But it turns out Snapdragon 800 isn’t just for Android — […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 coming this summer

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 processor powers some of the highest-performance mobile devices available today including the HTC One and the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S IV. But it’s only the second most powerful processor Qualcomm plans to launch in the first half of 2013. Earlier this year the company also started showing off the […]

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 tablet gaming demo (video)

Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor features 4 Krait 400 processor cores, Adreno 330 graphics, and support for ultraHD video playback. But what does that mean in terms of real-world performance? Qualcomm is showing off a couple of tablet reference designs equipped with an early Snapdragon 800 processor, and it’s running a couple of games and […]

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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 […]