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Adreno Graphics


Qualcomm recently launched GameCommand to showcase games that leverage on the capabilities of the their Adreno GPUs. GameCommand features games from various dev companies, but apparently, Qualcomm are upping the ante with a game studio of their own.



They are also working on a much improved version of GameCommand, which is expected to launch at the upcoming MWC.


Qualcomm game studio will target phones and tablets powered by the company Snapdragon chipsets (which use Adreno graphics). They are promising "console-quality graphics" on the mobile devices.


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Samsung - Qualcomm

 

This may sound surprising, Samsung, one of Qualcomm's main competitors in the business of the mobile silicon with its Exynos Mobile chips, is going to help its rival to produce the 28nm Snapdragon S4 SoC.


The reason for this is that Qualcomm's current manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, better known as TSMC, can't keep up with the demand. As a result, Qualcomm has reached out to the biggest players in the business for help United Microelectronics (UMC) and Samsung.

 

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UMC is said to start producing the 28nm Snapdragon S4 chips in Q4 of this at the very earliest. However, it's unknown when Samsung will chime in and start the manufacturing process.


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Bench-score


Qualcomm upcoming 28nm based Snapdragon SoCs (Adreno 225), codenamed Krait, are expected to arrive later this year. But a NenaMark 2 benchmark score on an unidentified device has leaked ahead of launch.


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In this benchmark, we see this unidentified device, probably just a reference unit, running the MSM8960 processor with the Adreno 225 graphics. The device has a display resolution of 1024 x 600, same as 7-inch tablets but despite the higher resolution, it posts a rather impressive score of 54.90 in NenaMark 2.



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Wifi 802.11ac


Wifi N-Draft (which most of the current devices has!) will consider to be Old by the End of this Year, Qualcomm Atheros says that the next-generation of WiFi wireless Networking will roll-out in a smoother manner than past industry transitions with less confusion for consumers. The new 802.11ac technology, also known as 5G WiFi, promises blazing fast internet access that is several times faster than today existing network speeds for 802.11n chips.


Rob Chandhok, Qualcomm president of internet services and senior vice president, said in an interview that the 802.11ac technology will likely see a simultaneous rollout for both access point chips as well as end-use devices. The first wireless networking 802.11ac chip sets are expected to debut late this year or early next year, depending on when the engineering standard is finalized by an industry consortium. This time, there has been less squabbling around the standard among industry players.


Wifi 5G


The technology is faster because it uses a wider channel for delivering data, at 80 megahertz instead of 40. It uses 256-QAM, a modulation scheme that is four times more efficient than the prior 64-QAM scheme. And it taps multiple antennae using the MIMO (Multiple-Inputs, Multiple-Outputs) spatial stream technology, using twice as many streams as were available before.



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