Qualcomm's Dual-Core 1.5GHz Snapdragon: Smartphones Are About to Go Hyperspeed

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Qualcomm's current 1GHz Snapdragon is the muscle that makes the Nexus One so fantastically speedy, but Qualcomm isn't sitting on their laurels—they just announced two new chips that are going to power the next great mobile devices.

First up is the single-core Snapdragon 8X50A, a 45nm chip that's essentially the next version of the 1GHz chip in the Nexus One. It's clocked at 1.3GHz. But what we're really excited about is the dual-core 8X72, which uses two Scorpion cores to achieve 1.5GHz. Luis Pineda, Senior VP at Qualcomm, assures that the 8X72 is suitable for smartphones (not just smartbooks or netbooks) and can handle 1080p video. Both the 8X50A and 8X72 will be out this year, going head to head with the Tegra 2.

According to Slashgear Qualcomm’s SVP of product management, Luis Pineda, has just revealed that there are at least two more versions of Snapdragon to come in 2010, running at up to 1.5GHz.
1) Qualcomm Snapdragon 8X50A, a 45nm version of the current chip and clocked at 1.3GHz. That will begin sampling to manufacturers later in January 2010, with the first products using expected by the end of the year.
2) dual-core Snapdragon, the 8X72, with twin 1.5GHz Scorpion cores, before 2010 is out. According to them the 8X72 will be suitable for both smartphones and smartbooks and capable of 1080p High Definition.
If the 1GHz on the HD2 could do so much imagin what the twin 1.5 GHz could do.

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高通在手機應用處理器方面真的是搶盡了鋒頭，除了摩托羅拉的Android產品及NOKIA系列手機以外，其他高階的Android、Windows Mobile手機幾乎清一色都是採用高通的Snapdragon，這款應用處理器時脈高達1GHz，可錄製播放720P影片，也讓手機的用途三級跳，變得更不像手機。

高通預計在今年下半年推出新的應用處理器，是基於雙核Cortex-A9，時脈高達1.5GHz的Snapdragon，整合了剛買下的ATI繪圖核心，編解碼能力則是經過強化，能夠進行1080P影片編解碼！（其實，NVIDIA基於ARM11的Tegra一代就可以輕鬆辦到了）

而在此之前，高通也會推出製程改良版的Cortex-A8 Snapdragon，從原本的65nm提升到45nm，最高頻率也可以小幅提升到1.3GHz，其功耗據稱會降低三成，效能也提升大概三成，高通方面則是表示，基於此處理器的終端產品預計在年底就會推出。



網路上盛傳HTC HD3的規格已經洩漏，該謠言內容指出，今年底HTC將會推出新一代機皇HD3，內建1.5GHz雙核心ARM處理器，但是從謠言內容對照本新聞，就可以知道這些規格完全是捏造的，如果HTC要在今年11月推出HD3，處理器時脈頂多只有1.3GHz，而不是該假規格中宣稱的1.5GHz，想看1.5GHz雙核Snapdragon，等2011年底看HTC HD4會不會內建吧！