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As top-tier smartphones equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 get closer to hitting the market, Qualcomm has released some new information on the capabilities and benefits their new chip will bring to the smartphone market. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 820 will offer two times the power efficiency and performance when compared to the Snapdragon 810 chipset. At least a part of that gain is due to Qualcomm switching to a 14nm manufacturing process for the Snapdragon 820.
Qualcomm points out that the new Kyro architecture, replacing the Krait CPU they have been using, was custom engineered by the company to meet the needs of consumers for both higher performance and longer battery life. Qualcomm also points out an ongoing challenge is managing heat as processors become more powerful and do more work while smartphone manufacturers make their devices thinner and out of lighter materials that do not soak up as much heat.
Although it was previously reported the Snapdragon 820 would run at up to 3.0GHz, and versions running that fast may yet be released, Qualcomm’s initial release is slated to run at 2.2GHz.
Qualcomm also announced that as part of the new Snapdragon 820 design, they are implementing a new Qualcomm Symphony System Manager. The system manager will manage the entire system-on-chip, both primary processors like the the Kyro CPU, the Adreno 530 GPU and the Hexagon 680 DSP, as well as smaller specialized cores like the Qualcomm Spectra ISP for the camera. This new system manager will help Qualcomm and smartphone manufacturers squeeze out better performance in response to customer use of their devices by ensuring appropriate computing resources are available.
source: Qualcomm
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