{"id":266165,"date":"2018-06-27T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=266165"},"modified":"2018-06-27T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T07:50:35","slug":"qualcomm-launches-new-mid-range-smartphone-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/266165-qualcomm-launches-new-mid-range-smartphone-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm launches new mid-range smartphone chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has introduced three new mid-range smartphone chips:\u00a0the Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its new chips are engineered to offer higher performance, better battery life, more efficient designs, great graphics, and artificial intelligence capabilities into the best-selling Snapdragon tiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Qualcomm continues to bring more premium technology advancements to lower Snapdragon tiers, which is helping to transform the mass-market consumer experience,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 632 will offer mainstream gaming, 4K video capture, AI, and fast LTE speeds for an affordable price, said Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>It will be built on advanced FinFET process technology, and comprises a Qualcomm Kryo 250 CPU and Qualcomm Adreno 506 GPU.<\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 439 and 429 will be equipped with AI capabilities to enhance the camera, voice, and security experience, added Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>Also built with FinFET process technology, the Snapdragon 439 and 429 will feature an X6 LTE modem.<\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 439 then features an octa-core CPU and Adreno 505 GPU, while the Snapdragon 429 will use an Adreno 504 GPU.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial devices based on Snapdragon 632, 439, and 429 platforms are expected to launch in the second half of the year, said Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/265247-xiaomi-ipo-attracts-qualcomm-and-china-mobile.html\">Xiaomi IPO attracts Qualcomm and China Mobile<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm has introduced three new mid-range smartphone chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":241100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3524,41994],"class_list":["post-266165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-qualcomm","tag-qualcomm-snapdragon-mobile-platform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266173,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266165\/revisions\/266173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}