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From: Eric L	6/27/2012 2:02:06 PM
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Qualcomm Tiered High End Snapdragon S4 Processors for Smartphones, MIDs (PCs, STBs and STNs) qualcomm.com Qualcomm recently launched distinct tiers for its Snapdragon processor platform, starting with the S4 series. The Snapdragon S4 portfolio of processors now includes four distinct tiers -- Prime, Pro, Plus and Play. Qualcomm's ARM evabled Snapdragon processor brand currently powers smartphones and tablets but in addition to powering Android and Windows Phone 7.x smartphones and tablets the Snapdragon S4 Series of processors will scale beyond such devices and will appear in new platforms like Windows 8 PCs, SmartTVs and set top boxes as well as the Windows Phone 8 devices that will share a common kernel with Windows & RT. The Tiered Snapdragon S4 Lineup • Snapdragon S4 Play: Processors for high-volume smartphones. Qualcomm Processors in the S4 Play tier include the MSM8625 and MSM8225. • Snapdragon S4 Plus: Cover a broad range of powerful smartphone and tablet processors. Qualcomm Processors in the S4 Plus tier include: MSM8960, APQ8060A, MSM8660A, MSM8260A, APQ8030, MSM8930, MSM8630, MSM8230, MSM8627, and MSM8227 • Snapdragon S4 Pro: Computing-class processors for PCs, tablets and high-end smartphones. Processors in the S4 Pro tier include the APQ8064 and MSM8960T. • Snapdragon S4 Prime: Powers Hi-Performance apps & connectivity for TVs and Set Top Boxes. The current processor in the S4 Prime tier is the MPQ8064 As announced at this year's Uplinq Developers Conference, Qualcomm has previewed the first official Snapdragon S4 SDK for Android mobile developers who will now be able to integrate a number of Snapdragon APIs into their apps via the SDK. This should allow them to build some exciting hardware features (previously exclusive to the phones themselves) into their most powerful applications so that those apps may be tightly integrated the underlying hardware and so those developers and OEM device makers are able to differentiate their offerings. Given the close relationship between Qualcomm and Microsoft and Qualcomm and Nokia and since the MSM8960 will likely power all initial high end Windows Phone 8 devices it would not surprise me to see a Smapgragon WinPhone 8 SDK being previewed before long. The high level Qualcomm S4 Product Specs can be found here ... qualcomm.com - Eric -

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