Without revealing too much, LG has begun to tout its next flagship smartphone. LG promises that the new device will use technologies from a number of its sister companies to “set a new standard in the smartphone market.” We can expect “blazing fast performance” as well as “longer battery life, thinner profile, brighter display and a new touchscreen panel technology.” […]
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Samsung and UMC to manufacture Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipsets
Qualcomm appears to have found a solution to its Snapdragon S4 chipset supply issue. With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) unable to meet demand until 2013, it has reached out to Samsung and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) to manufacture additional 28nm chipsets for it. According to the Taiwan Economic News, UMC will manufacture some 3,000 to 5,000 wafers a month, […]
Windows Phone 8 devices to use Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset
Qualcomm confirmed back at Computex that its Snapdragon chipsets would continue to be found in Windows Phone devices beyond the current models. The Verge has now learned that Windows Phone 8 devices will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Plus mobile processor. The 28nm Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus comes dual-core Krait processors running as high as 1.7GHz and can be paired to […]
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 does a poor job of melting butter
The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset is regularly among the top chipsets in benchmark results. Not only does it display impressive speed and pack integrated LTE connectivity but Qualcomm has put together a video to show that it’s also the coolest – literally. The harder the processor has to work, the hotter it gets. The more demanding these tasks, the harder […]
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipsets supply issues to continue until 2013
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipsets will remain in tight supply likely until the end of the year. Qualcomm’s supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is still unable to meet current demand. At the company’s last annual general meeting, TSMC Chairman and CEO Morris Chang said that supply would continue to lag behind demand in the third quarter but would start to […]
Motorola DROID RAZR HD specifications and pictures leaked?
A number of leaks over the past few days have begun to paint a fairly good picture of the next DROID RAZR device. From benchmark results to leaked pictures, quite a bit is now known about the upcoming DROID RAZR HD. Could the DROID Figher than DROID RAZR HD be one and the same device? A number of details seem […]
Computex 2012: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 headed to Windows Phone 8 devices
Given that Qualcomm’s processors are the only ones you will find in Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 devices, it should come as no surprise that they will also make their way into Windows Phone 8 devices. Confirmation came from Rob Chandhok, senior vice president at Qualcomm, during Computex. These Snapdragon S4 chips will come with integrated LTE. The news gives […]
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processors coming to 2012 Motorola devices?
A new Motorola device, codenamed Qinara, has surfaced on the GLBenchmark website. A number of specifications are revealed and among them a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset (the same one expected in the HTC One X and other upcoming high-end smartphones). Motorola has typically used Texas Instruments OMAP processors (along with the odd NVDIA one). This change could be due […]