Qualcomm Roadmap Reveals 2.5GHz Snapdragon Processors
Qualcomm Roadmap Reveals 2.5GHz Snapdragon Processors
Posted 09/15/2011 at 10:20am
| by Paul Lilly
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You know what really sucks about being locked into a two-year service contract with your wireless carrier? It's seeing all these new fangled smartphones come out, ones with features that weren't available when you jumped in. Bought a Motorola Droid X2? That's great, now the Droid Bionic is here, and it supports 4G LTE. Rocking a dual-core 1.2GHz processor? Awesome, except that tomorrow's phones will kick things up to 2.5GHz and four cores!
That's the top clockspeed Qualcomm's latest roadmap shows, according to Pocket-Lint, which was on hand at the chip maker's Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. Qualcomm's roadmap was broken down into four sections, including an S1 class for mass market smartphones, S2 class for high performance smartphones and tablets, an S3 class for multi-tasking and advanced gaming, and an S4 class for 'Holy *&#%!' performance and next generation devices.
The new S4 class chipset includes a next generation processor line built on a 28nm manufacturing process. These will include up to quad-core processing clocked at 2.5GHz along with a high performance Adreno GPU (dual- and quad-core), 1080p HD, 3G, and LTE.
So how long do you have to wait for this crazy fast mobile processors to make it to market? Not all that long, actually. Qualcomm expects to have these chips in device makers' hands by the end of the year, so you should see 2.5GHz smartphones and tablets in early 2012. Battery life? We'll have to wait and see.
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bpstone
September 15, 2011 at 9:07pm
Five minutes into a conversation... battery is at 10%. lol I think instead of shoving even faster processors into phones, they need to invest in much better batteries for portable devices.
xeridian
September 15, 2011 at 8:22pm
I wonder when some of these Mobile Devs are gonna jump into the PC market to grab a slice. It would only mean good things for PC fans as prices and tech would have to stay competitive. If I were Nvidia, AMD or Intel, I'd be looking over my shoulder. I would say that would be a bad thing for consoles, the generation timeline couldn't keep up with the tech and people would just stick with their PC and a Portable alternative. I see the market changing drastically in the next 2-3 years...
whathuhitwasntme
September 15, 2011 at 6:56pm
you cant even buy the galaxy II s for sprint till Tomorrow here, so I don't know where you get too fast. Its been out for months, but not in america!
US_Ranger
September 15, 2011 at 2:13pm
These smart phones are going to be more powerful than computers that were popular a few years ago. This is madness.
Coldrage
September 15, 2011 at 12:15pm
I'm still using a nokia with a 2mp camera, lol
Why do people need all this crazy stuff?Perhaps I'll indulge myself sooner or later
kixofmyg0t
September 15, 2011 at 12:12pm
The problem here is the clock speed is mostly a crock....
I'm not saying it doesn't have it's merits but in reality these chips will be underclocked most of thier running time.
I can(and have) rachet my Tegra2 equiped Xoom to 1.7Ghz and beyond if I want to....just can't expect the massive battery the Xoom already has to last very long. So I leave it idling at 312Mhz and it can go up to 1.5Ghz if it needs to.
Damnlogin
September 15, 2011 at 2:51pm
I agree. My Nokia N900 is able to run more than 20 apps smooth at once on a linux OS with only a 600MHZ Cortex A8 and 256MB RAM. I can easily run andriod apps, Palm apps, n64 and psx games at 600mhz and OC to 1ghz if needed. For what possible reason would you need a 2.5ghz quad chip in a mobile device lol
IIAbeII
September 15, 2011 at 10:48am
Americans complaining about new smartphone come out too quickly? In Canada they come out tooo slow. The best phone I can get is a samsung galaxy S II, but only if I buy it at newegg for $700. The newest phones availible in my province are Sony Ecricsson Play and the Iphone 4. . .
No good HTC phones or new Droid phones
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