News · 2 Jun 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Qualcomm announced yesterday the sampling of the first Dual-Core Snapdragon chipsets:the MSM8260 and MSM8660. The First generation of SnapDragon chipset known as the QSD8×50 is now available in a wide variety of handsets like the HTC HD2, Google Nexus, Acer Liquid etc. The second generation Snapdragon, the MSM8×55 and QSD8×50A features a higher maximum clock rate (1.3Ghz), enhanced multi-media features and is supposedly going to first appear in HTC’s first Windows Phone 7 device, the rumored HTC Mondrian. The new MSM8260 and MSM8660 dual-core chipsets have a maximum clockrate of 1.2ghz and will ship in products probably at the end of 2011. Check out the full press release after the break:
Third-generation Snapdragon Solutions Feature Two Application Processor Cores Running up to 1.2 GHz to Enable Advanced SmartphonesTAIPEI, Taiwan – June 01, 2010 – Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of wireless technologies, products and services, today announced the Company has sampled its first dual-CPU Snapdragon™ chipsets. The Mobile Station Modem™ (MSM™) MSM8260™ and MSM8660™ solutions integrate two of the Company’s enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. Targeted at enabling high-end smartphones, the MSM8×60 solutions are third-generation chipsets from the Company’s expanded Snapdragon platform, which has been powering smartphones, tablets and smartbook devices in markets around the world.
“Qualcomm’s first-generation Snapdragon chipsets set a new standard for advanced smartphones and smartbook devices, and our second-generation solutions are already shipping in volume,” said Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “We are very excited by the innovation our customers are already showing as they begin designing products based on our dual-core MSM8260 and MSM8660 chipsets.”
The MSM8260 for HSPA+ and MSM8660 for multi-mode HSPA+/CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO Rev. B feature two enhanced CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz for high levels of Web application and multimedia performance, including a powerful GPU with 3D/2D acceleration engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 accelration, 1080p video encode/decode, dedicated low power audio engine, integrated low power GPS, and support for 24-bit WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution displays.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon family of chipset solutions includes:
• First-generation products: QSD8×50™ with 1GHz enhanced core
• Second-generation products: MSM8×55™ and QSD8×50A™ with 1GHz enhanced core, including multimedia optimizations and 1.3GHz enhanced core, respectively
• Third-generation products: MSM8260, MSM8660 and QSD8672 with dual-CPU architecture featuring enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz, respectively
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