Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon 690 processor to add 5G to budget phones
Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon 690 processor to add 5G to budget phones
By Chaim Gartenberg
June 17, 2020 at 07:30AM
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By Chaim Gartenberg
Qualcomm is launching its next 5G chipset today, the Snapdragon 690, the first product in its 6-series chips to get support for the next-generation networking standard — although it’ll only support the slower sub-6GHz versions of 5G, not the faster mmWave standard.
The new Snapdragon 690 also promises a variety of other improvements over the previous 6-series chips. Qualcomm says it’ll offer 20 percent better CPU performance and 60 percent faster graphics rendering compared to the Snapdragon 675.
But the addition of 5G support — by way of a new Snapdragon X51 modem — is particularly important for the broader adoption of 5G, given that the company’s 6-series chips tend to show up in midrange and...
June 17, 2020 at 07:30AM
via The Verge - All Posts
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