Andre Yoskowitz
15 Sep 2011 13:56
Qualcomm has shown off their latest mobile processor roadmap, and it appears your phones are going to get a lot more powerful, and soon.
Snapdragon processors, seen in a majority of today's Android phones will soon see core speeds of 2.5GHz, 67 percent faster than the current leader in the market, the dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon seen in the upcoming Sensation XE.
The "S4" chip, slated for launch in devices in February, will not only have quad-core at 2.5Ghz, but Adreno Graphics, 3D, 1080p HD, and 3G/LTE multimode as standard.
CEO Paul Jacobs says it is not all about speed however (via Lint):
It’s not about how many cores or how many gigabytes, it’s how well you can optimise the system.