Qualcomm - "Gigahertz something out of place"

Qualcomm announced the new dual-core 45nm Snapdragon QSD8672 at 1.5 GHz with support for video playback at 1080p. Deliveries will begin in the 4th quarter of this year, devices on new chips will appear, respectively, somewhere in the middle of next.

Target devices for new chips (in a direct speech from the company's vice president) are smartphones, tablets and inexpensive laptops. To increase the operating time, the kernels can work independently - for example, one at full speed, the other at this time "resting".

As for me, it’s a perfectly suitable chip for 8-10 ”tablets and netbooks (adjusted for power consumption), for smartphones it is doubtful. Who really needs 1080p video playback on a 3, 4-inch screen? Two cores at 1.5-GHz - is it not better to optimize software for existing flagship chips (the same Snapdragon and Hummingbird).

So I see the new HTC Superior with a 5.3-inch screen and a working time of 6 hours.

In general, progress is great.

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