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Intel and Qualcomm announce their new SoCs at MWC

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-I-get-some-dips-with-that? dept.

Rashek writes:

"Intel and Qualcomm just announced their roadmaps for mobile System on a Chip at this year's Mobile World Congress.

Intel presented performance numbers of their Merrifield SoC, a dual-core Silvermont based SoC that's effectively the phone version of Bay Trail, with some carefully chosen benchmarks that compared it to Apple's A7 SoC and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series. Meanwhile, Qualcomm revealed future 64-bit Snapdragons for its mid-tier Snapdragon series. The Snapdragon 610 and 615 will arrive in Android smartphones in Q4 of this year and are four and eight core implementations of ARM's Cortex A53."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by dotdotdot on Monday February 24 2014, @02:09PM

    by dotdotdot (858) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:09PM (#6003)

    I think the form factors of handhelds are changing too quickly for an idea like that to materialize.

  • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Monday February 24 2014, @02:44PM

    by Open4D (371) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:44PM (#6044) Journal

    I think the form factors of handhelds are changing too quickly for an idea like that to materialize.

    I agree that's a major concern, but the standard battery wouldn't have to fit perfectly snugly into every phone. The aim is that it should be such a convenient system that you don't mind swapping out a commodity battery every 4 hours, even if a custom battery that filled every inch of space in the device would last 6 hours. And larger devices would take 3 or more of these commodity batteries.

    Also, I think there's a fair chance we've arrived at a form factor that will last a while. I wouldn't be surprised if I've still got a 13cm x 6cm x 0.8cm device in 15 years time. It seems quite well suited to the human hand and the trouser pocket. Unless Google Glass takes over, or direct brain interfaces become available, or something else lures us away from the smartphone.