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MWC 2013. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800

 

At the Qualcomm stand we were able to see the new Snapdragon chips and check all the functionalities they offer throughout various usage environments where new technologies will be applied to make the integration between devices and the capabilities of Smartphones more comfortable in the near future.

The maximum exponent of everything that Qualcomm is capable of offering is its Snapdragon 800, the next most powerful chip of the company, with four ā€œKraitā€ cores clocked at up to 2.3 GHz and a new generation Adreno graphics, specifically the 330. Keep in mind that all Snapdragon have asynchronous cores, a technology that allows activate or deactivate the cores according to the demands of the moment, making the cores that are not used do not consume load. In the words of the company, this avoids the need to incorporate a fifth low-power core.

Thanks to the power delivered by this chip it is possible play 4K content without problem, even via Streaming or generating virtual surround sound from conventional headphones, allowing any tablet or mobile to be used with the S800 in a complete and powerful multimedia center.

All new Snapdragon chips feature the DSP Hexagon, a module that is responsible for processing certain common tasks such as augmented reality effects, audio systems such as Beats Audio or SRS, all while maintaining a much lower consumption than the processor itself. In the case of the DSP of the Snapdragon 800 we are facing the most powerful DSP of the company, with a speed of 600 MHz, maintaining, that if, the minimum consumption.

How well they know in Qualcomm, to have a chip with integrated LTE modem It opens up many possibilities when it comes to its integration in the most cutting-edge terminals, for this reason the S800 includes as standard a modem with support for 3G and 4G or LTE. Having the modem on the chip itself achieves better optimization, better consumption, and allows manufacturers to develop thinner and lighter smartphones and tablets.

MWC 2013. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, Imagen 2

Taking advantage of all the power that the S800 offers, from Qualcomm they have wanted to take advantage of it to introduce new technologies that make life easier for the consumer, and directly for the manufacturer. One that has caught our attention is a photography system for smartphones made up of 16 mini cameras with their own sensor with few megapixels, which, thanks to the processor, allowed the creation of high-resolution photographs, with great quality and allowing things like the multipoint focus, silhouette detection and direct editing, and all this allowing much finer devices, since at the level of space it is much easier to implement 16 small sensors than a single 13 megapixel sensor for example.

Also taking advantage of the other Snapdragon models such as the 600 or the 400, the company has wanted to enter the home automation market as a way to integrate our smartphone into a much more intuitive and simple user experience, allowing to control domestic elements such as a coffee maker, the heating, the alarm of the clocks of the house or even systems integrated in vehicles, all through the own WiFi network, developing and supporting an open standard of the AllJoyn platform (SDK already available) so that the manufacturers include small plates with a built-in chip that allows interaction between them and the Smartphone.

MWC 2013. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, Imagen 3

The new ones Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 to hit the market in the middle of this yearSpecifically, during the month of May it will be when the manufacturers have the chip, so before the end of this 2013 we will be able to see Smartphones and Tablets with this processor inside.

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