Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip will give smartphones a big power boost

If you're the type that reads smartphone specifications closely, chances are you're familiar with the name "Snapdragon." It's Qualcomm's system-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices that typically includes a central processor and a graphics processing unit, and it powers more smartphones than any other type of chip

Many of today's top smartphones use the Snapdragon 810 chip, one of the speediest on the market. But in a blog post Wednesday, Qualcomm dropped a bomb by revealing that the SoC's next iteration, the Snapdragon 820, will have twice the processing power and double the power efficiency of a Snapdragon 810 Read more...