Qualcomm announces collaboration with Microsoft with Windows 8 - quad-core Snapdragon coming

Qualcomm announced, Wednesday, that they are in and will be collaborating with Microsoft for the next version of Windows. Actually, they are one of those who showcased their own chips in devices displayed at Computex 2011 with Windows 8 running in them. Anyway, Qualcomm said that the first chipset that they will be producing are those Snapdragon MSM8960 which is said to start sampling this month. This will then be followed with, I believe their say with nVidia's Kal-El chipsets, the APQ8064™ quad-core chips. The quad-core chips from Qualcomm is said to start sampling by early 2012, which makes nVidia ahead in the game. Anyway, read Qualcomm's press release after the break.

Windows 8 prototypes shown at Computex

When Windows 8 was first unveiled at the D9 Conference, a few devices were on stage when Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live Vice President Steven Sinofsky demoed the new OS. A few hours after that, across the globe in Taiwan, prototypes of different form factors that the OS would be running on where displayed and shown off to the crowd. These are all ARM-based prototypes with Microsoft's first hardware partners like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and nVidia all showed off their own devices (well chips inside the device, I believe).

Qualcomm's 3rd gen Snaprdragon processor gets demoed - 1.5GHz dual-core!

The company unveiled their 3rd generation Snapdragon processor during the CES 2011 in Las Vegas. Today though they showcased their Qualcomm Snaprdragon MSM8660 dual-core chipset. The processor is dual-core and can rev up to 1.5GHz. Aside from that the chipset includes their newest GPU, the Adreno 220 which will allows devices to playback true HD videos in 1080p right on your device! Two videos are posted after the break for us to fully understand what they are saying. 

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Qualcomm unveils new generation Snapdragon chips - quad-core awesomeness with 2.5GHz clockspeed!

Qualcomm at MWC 2011 have unveiled their new generation Snapdragon chips. You might think that the mobile processor industry, especially with Qualcomm, is getting a little boring, then think again. The new chips from the company will be powering your future devices up to 2.5GHz and that will have four cores in it giving you 150% more overall performance and 65% lesser power consumption (that's a lot!). The new chipset comes in single, dual, and of course quad cores.

HTC Pyramid shows up, again, in a European carrier's inventory system

This is definitely not the first time that this happened for this particular HTC Pyramid have surfaced into the limelight. It was first rumored a few days ago that it will be sporting a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor (MSM8260). If true, this handset will be the world's most powerful. It will also feature a 4.3"  qHD display and is rumored to be available sometime in May with T-Mobile. Not only was the smartphone rumored it also showed up in Vodafone Germany's inventory system. Head over the break for the photo.