Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 and Snapdragon 412 Announced

Instead there are customers out there who might have to settle for low or mid-range devices, but fret not because Qualcomm’s got you covered.

The Snapdragon 412 and 212 serve as updates to the existing 410 and 210.

Qualcomm has announced two new additions to its budget range of smartphone processors, which offer a small bump in power compared to their predecessors. It will be capable of supporting 13MP cameras and will support X5 LTE for up to Cat 4 speeds. Their successors, the 412 and 212, respectively, push things up just wee bit in line with the demands of today’s mobile users. The running frequencies of the Cortex A53 CPU and Adreno 306 GPU in the Snapdragon 412 will be clocked higher, and memory speeds will be improved. It’s still the same Cortex-A53, meaning 64-bit. The SoC supports LTE Broadcast, LTE multimode dual SIM and VoLTE with HD Voice and SRVCC and comes with Qualcomm VIVE 1-stream 802.11ac, Qualcomm IZat location services, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth Smart 4.1.

The Snapdragon 616 – the more powerful of this particular bunch – is scarcely discernible from the current Snapdragon 615 on paper. Naturally, Snapdragon 810 will be the less expensive model, which is only fitting seeing as how Snapdragon 820 will blow it right out of the water. The max clock speed of the little cluster hikes from 1 GHz to 1.2 GHz, but aside from that minor detail, it’s essentially unchanged.

To that end, Qualcomm has introduced new processors in each of those three categories.

The chips have started sampling now, so one can expect phones/tablets sporting these chips to be seen by the end of the year.