New mid- and entry-level tier chips from Qualcomm announced
Qualcomm has announced some updates to their mid-level and entry-level chips. The Snapdragon 412 and the Snapdragon 212 will replace their predecessors which were announced close to a year ago and will power a large number of smartphones that will be hitting the market. Although watching chip manufacturers push the bounds with their top-tier chips used in premium smartphones is exciting, the rest of the lineup is important to the industry as these will be the “bread and butter” products powering the majority of smartphones and gives us a look at what the base will be for smartphone performance.
For this latest round of updates, the primary difference is some updated speeds. The processor speed for both chips has been pushed up by 200MHz, to 1.4GHz for the Snapdragon 412 and 1.3GHz for the Snapdragon 212.
The Snapdragon 412 will be capable of supporting cameras up to 13MP resolution as well as both full HD video capture and playback. The Snapdragon 412 will also support Quick Charge 2.0.
The Snapdragon 212 continues as a 32-bit processor solution and supports most standards, similar to the Snapdragon 412. The Snapdragon 212 supports full HD capture but not playback and is limited to only supporting cameras of up to 8MP resolution.
Qualcomm will continue to produce these chips using a 28nm manufacturing process. Devices built with these new chips should be hitting the market soon.
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