Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors have been a hallmark of mobile devices for the past few years. Not content with keeping the party in your pockets, the Snapdragon is coming to your TV, to the tune of 1.5GHz quad-core processor mightiness. More »
Microsoft’z zippy touch-suitable Windows 8 will be compatible with Qualcomm’s dual-core and quad-core Snapdragon processors, including the MSM8960 chip, the company confirmed. Expect the other old favourites to throw their hats in the ring shortly, too. More »
A fairer test would involve comparing a chocolate bar with a granola bar, but Qualcomm doesn’t care. Not when their video “shows” a second-gen single-core Snapdragon (in Verizon’s Thunderbolt) speeding against a dual-core Tegra 2 (in AT&T’s Motorola Atrix). More »
Those upcoming Snapdragon chips of Qualcomm’s can actually stream Netflix on Android phones, as we saw on an LG Revolution at MWC. It’s unlikely you’ll be streaming from your queue anytime this year though, as we wait for Qualcomm’s new chips to find its way into phones, but as you can see from our video above, it can even stream to TVs through HDMI – and do a good job of it, too. More »
Netflix laid out months ago the reasons that Watch Instantly hasn’t come to Android yet. Namely, security and the challenges of making sure it works with every individual Android phone. More »
Over the past year, Qualcomm has added a dose of glamour to chipsets, with many of our commenters regularly lambasting manufacturers for not choosing Snapdragon for their products. Those arguments look set to become even more regular, now Qualcomm’s confirmed quad-core Snapdragons are on their way, for at least 12x the added performance of what’s most likely in your smartphone now. More »
Both Apple’s iPhone and iPad and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are based on ARM architecture, as are almost all mobile phone processors. But where is Intel and the x86? Can the world’s largest semiconductor company thwart the public’s embrace of ARM? More »
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. More »
