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.

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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