Qualcomm’s Newest Smartphone Chip Aimed at PC Breakthrough
- Snapdragon 835 will enable thinner handset with larger battery
- ‘There will be a blurring of the PC and the smartphone’
Qualcomm unveils its new Snapdragon 835 chip.
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Qualcomm Inc., the largest maker of mobile phone chips, showed off its newest smartphone part, the Snapdragon 835, a product that’s also aimed at getting the company into the PC market.
The new part, successor to a range of chips that run most of the world’s high-end smartphones, will enable thinner handsets with larger batteries and draw less power than its predecessors, according to Qualcomm. It’s also the first processor to be made using 10 nanometer manufacturing process, which makes it the industry’s most advanced piece, Qualcomm said.