Qualcomm APQ8084 2.3 GHz quad-core chip coming in 2014

Chip maker Qualcomm just announced a new range of ARM-based processors for phones and tablets earlier this month. But the company is already working on chips that are even more powerful — and Android Police obtained the leaked documents to prove it.

The Qualcomm APQ8084 is a 2.3 GHz quad-core processor based on the same Qualcomm Krait design as the Snapdragon 600 and 800 series processors due out in mid-2013. But not only does the APQ8084 have a faster CPU speed, it’s also the first chip to ship with Adreno 420 graphics.
That will be the fastest graphics processor from Qualcomm to date, and the first to feature support for hardware-accelerated decoding of H.265 videos.
Additionally, the chipset can handle up to 2 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 connections, 802.11ac WiFi, and cameras with up to 30MP sensors.
Android Police speculates that we’ll first see the 28nm chip in tablets, or possibly even laptops. But it could eventually find its way to future smartphones as well. We won’t see it in any devices at all until 2014 at the soonest, though.

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LG OPTIMUS G PRO ANNOUNCED IN JAPAN: IT’S A RED-EYED BEAST OF A SMARTPHONE

Looks like the beast of a smartphone, the LG Optimus G, just got a turbocharge: LG has just announced the LG Optimus G Pro for the Japanese market. An exclusive to the NTT Docomo carrier in Japan, the Optimus G Pro looks to have taken the lead in terms of specs for the increasingly-saturated 5-inch 1080p smartphone arena.

The original Optimus G featured a 4.7-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1280 x 768 and a powerful 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with 2GB of RAM. Interestingly, the Optimus G was also the blueprint for Google’s latest Nexus smartphone, the Nexus 4. However, LG was clearly not resting on its laurels with the launch of the refreshed Optimus G Pro.

Sporting a 5-inch Full HD  screen and running on Android 4.1, the LTE-ready Optimus G Pro is also fitted with the highest-clocked Snapdragon S4 Pro processor yet, at 1.7GHz. There’s also 2GB of RAM and 32GB of flash storage (which is expandable via microSDXC slot), and a 13MP camera. Keeping this beast going is a 3000mAh battery pack, a large improvement from the original 2100mAh one found in the Optimus G.

The LG Optimus G Pro will hit the Japanese market sometime in April, but there is no word on whether this beast of a smartphone will be released internationally.

However the design and looks seem to be alike the famous top notch Note II offered by Samsung Mobile.That's some how a point to be consider.

(Source: Engadget)

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CES 2013 : Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 tablet gaming demo (video)

Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor features 4 Krait 400 processor cores, Adreno 330 graphics, and support for ultraHD video playback.

But what does that mean in terms of real-world performance? Qualcomm is showing off a couple of tablet reference designs equipped with an early Snapdragon 800 processor, and it’s running a couple of games and graphic demos to show what the future holds for Qualcomm-powered phones and tablets.

The demo system actually has a 1.5 GHz processor, but eventually we’ll see Snapdragon 800 chips with speeds up to 2.3 GHz.

Qualcomm says the processor is 75 percent faster than today’s Snapdragon S4 chip, which is already one of the fastest ARM-based chips around.

It’s tough to say how the new processor will compare with NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 or upcoming Samsung Exynos chips, since those companies are basing their chips on ARM’s Cortex-A15 design. Qualcomm builds its own custom ARM-based chips, so Krait isn’t a Cortex design at all.

But in the gaming demos, you can see that the reference tablets can render an awful lot of graphical elements simultaneously including lighting effects, camera angles, and more.

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