Qualcomm samples its Dual-CPU Snapdragon Chipset
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 02 June 2010, 22:36 IST   |    7 Comments
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Qualcomm samples its Dual-CPU Snapdragon Chipset
Taipei:Qualcomm Incorporated, developer of wireless technologies, products and services, has announced that 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 MSM8x60 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. 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," said Steve Mollenkopf, Executive Vice President of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. It consists of 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.

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