Qualcomm has presented this morning two new processors, the Snapdragon 610 and 615, at the same time as a third party, the Snapdragon 801 it has become effective with its arrival with the Xperia Z2. With these announcements, the manufacturer has released, on the one hand, the first SoC of the firm with 64 bits and, on the other, to a intermediate solution to which will be his big bet for this year in high-end smartphones and tablets, the Snapdragon 805.
Qualcomm has become a key player in the mobile device industry. Most manufacturers who want to position themselves among the best in the market and offer mobile connections of the highest level to its users, no doubt, the Snapdragon are above the rest in essential aspects. This company continues to feed its domain with three new machines that have been very present today during the second day of the MWC
Snapdragon 610 and 615, quad and octa core 64-bit
Although at first, Qualcomm criticized Samsung's move with its Exynos de 8 nuclei and that of Apple with its A7 of 64 bits, the company specializing in semiconductors has had to back down and recognize both advances such as an important step in the line of evolution of SoCs for mobiles and tablets.
Both chips, the Snapdragon 610 and 615, feature an architecture of 64 bits and integrate 4G LTE. The main difference is that the first works with 4 cores and the second with 8 nuclei in a big.LITTLE distribution.
The Snapdragon 801 arrives alongside the Xperia Z2
On the other hand, next to the presentation of X, the arrival of the Snapdragon 801. An evolution of the 800 model that, as reported in Android Community, increases CPU performance by 14% and GPU performance by 28%, while amplifying the activity of sensors and keeps the level of consumption low.
As we say, it is quite possible that the majority of flagships in large firms will opt for this variant until the Snapdragon 805 is ready to market.