14 DAY TRIAL // Qualcomm just presented its first two chipsets that include 1GHz processors. Both products are targeted towards the mobile phone market, which should open the door for a great number of possibilities from now on.
Mobile phones are developing towards becoming miniature PCs, from what it looks like. 1GHZ processors are just a milestone in the high tech evolution and even higher performances are sure to come in the future. This technology will make it possible to run a great number of resource demanding applications and even set standards for developers higher than ever before. Now they have the support for doing more and results are sure to come as well.
The two products coming from Qualcomm are the first ones in the "Snapdragon" family of chipsets aimed at next-generation mobile phones. The dual-core QSD8250/8650 chipsets reach 1 Ghz and include a "universal modem" that the producer presents as being capable to support all 2G and 3G mobile broadband standards. Qualcomm said that their new products can run on Linux and Windows CE-based operating systems.
The QSD8250 offers HSPA data rates of up to 7.2 Mbps on the downlink and 5.76 Mbps on the uplink, with full backward compatibility. Moreover, the dual-mode QSD8650 offers HSPA, as well as CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B, again backward-compatible with WCDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Not only do these chips offer "unsurpassed mobile processing performance", but they also provide extended, "all-day" battery life, according to the producer.
Qualcomm says that both the QSD8250 and QSD8650 are already shipping to handset-makers worldwide, which means that we should see some juicy releases of such highly evolved mobile phones sooner than expected. HTC already got its hands on the new chipsets and plans on using it in its high-end smartphones.