Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon generations

Posted by Charbax – January 23, 2010

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In an interview at hexus.net, Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies talks about the next generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors:

- Qualcomm 8X50A is 1.3ghz 45nm processor is being offered to manufacturers starting this month. Should arrive in products before the end of the year.

- Qualcomm 8X72 is a dual-core 1.5ghz processor will be released before the end of the year with products featuring it to come later. Could the 8X72 be Qualcomm’s first ARM Cortex A9 based processor?

We are already seeing the ARM Cortex A8 based 1ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon doing very impressive things in the HP Compaq Airlife 100, the Lenovo Skylight, LG Expo with add-on projector, Lenovo LePhone, Lenovo Ideapad U1, the Quanta Smartbook, the Google Nexus One phone and many more such really smooth and powerful devices. It will be interesting to see Qualcomm’s next generation ARM processors that use 45nm process instead of 65nm and that use the ARM Cortex A9 architechture for even more powerful products that consume even less power.

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  • https://launchpad.net/~riot777 Riotta

    ARM architecture future looks really promising. If this evolution will go so fast we could see 2.0GHz dual cores somewhere near Q4 of 2011 that's really cool. But it's shame that there are no atleast single core Netbook/Nettop products on the mass market yet. Consumers are waiting for them too long as they were announced year ago.

  • readfox

    Now everything is about power consumption. They have to go to 32nm technology with Qualcomm 8X72 series.

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