Qualcomm officially unveiled its latest mobile chip, the Snapdragon 820, at a media event in New York City this morning.
Qualcomm officially unveiled its latest mobile chip, the Snapdragon 820, at a media event in New York City this morning. But, given that the company has been divulging details about the 820 for the past few months, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that it was announced long ago. We already know that the Snapdragon 820's Adreno 530 GPUis around 40 percent faster than the 810's graphics (making it ideal for VR); it will deliver LTE speeds of up to 600 Mbpsand support 802.11ad WiFi; it's significantly more power-efficient; and it'll use machine learning to fight malwareright on your device. So what's left to announce? Not much, it turns out. But Qualcomm did give us a look at how the 820's new features could be applied to devices in 2016.
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