Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to discover the G2′s new Snapdragon processor is only clocked at 800MHz, but according to some leaked figures from GLBenchmarks, it should run at around the same speed as Motorola’s Droid X and 2.
Unfortunately we won’t be seeing any 1.5GHz Snapdragon-powered smartphones before the end of 2011, after Qualcomm’s CEO mistakenly told assembled gatherers at an event today that they’d be arriving in Q1. What he meant to say was that the 1.2GHz Snapdragon chips would be arriving in Q1. Whoops.
That Toshiba AC100 Android-powered netbook may not be the most desirable combination of hardware and software out there, but it already has one big plus point – it’s Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset destroys anything else in terms of raw speed.
According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is closing in on a deal to acquire the wireless unit of Infineon AG. You know, the company responsible for the iPhone’s baseband chips since 1997. That’s one way to build a mobile presence.
Now every man and his donkey has a Snapdragon chip in their smartphones, it’s time for Qualcomm to look past the 1.2GHz speeds and bring us a 1.5GHz dual-core. It’s on its way, from late this year/early next year.
It’s become de rigeur for manufacturers to whack a Snapdragon processor in smartphones nowadays – even if people don’t quite understand what it means (or does), they want nothing less. Now, Qualcomm’s offering dual-core 1.2GHz chips to manufacturers.
AMD’s officially closing the gap. With the help of a slew of major manufacturers, they’re putting their processors in nearly three times more notebooks than last year, expanding their Vision branding to desktops, and ramping up performance across the board.
TI’s new dual-core OMAP4 mobile chipset, the sequel to the OMAP3 series that powers the Droid and Palm Pre (among others), claims crazy performance: Three independent displays running 1080p video, for example, and an estimated 145-hour battery life for audio.
Via’s been on a roll lately with power-efficient products, and the VN1000 continues the trend.
