Snapdragon 820 processor officially detailed by Qualcomm

Get ready for the next generation of mobile.

At long last, Qualcomm has officially unveiled the Snapdragon 820 chipset.

Finally, battery life will improve with the Snapdragon 820 up to 30 percent over the last Qualcomm processor. The 64-bit quad-core CPU uses Qualcomm’s own Kryo cores (running as fast as 2.2GHz), which provides twice the performance of the CPU on the Snapdragon 810 chipset. In fact, Qualcomm officials have quoted 2x the performance of their previous gen Snapdragon 810 in single threaded throughput alone, which is a sizable gain.

The 820 will also consume 60 percent less power than 801 chipset (an even older iteration in Qualcomm’s mobile line).

Qualcomm completely redesigned the chip, making the 820 capable of generating updated graphics, better photos, longer battery life and much more, Tech Radar reports. The chip supports a 28MP camera with 4K Ultra HD capture and playback. Users will also be able to record 3D Audio when they shoot their own videos. The 820 supports wireless charging (on phones that offer it), as well as compatibility for devices sporting micro-USB, USB Type-A and USB Type-C charging ports. The only way to believe a flying droid or a possessed doll is sneaking up behind you is for you to hear them approaching from behind.

Qualcomm has taken the wraps off its latest silicon beast, the Snapdragon 820.

Built on a 14 nanometer process, the Snapdragon 820 appears to have it all. The jump in GPU performance, albeit great, could be mitigated by higher-resolution displays in 2016, but even then it should bring improvements in VR experiences. One of them is the newly integrated X12 LTE modem. 12 LTE – that offers up theoretical 600Mbps download speeds, and 150Mbps upload speeds. The 802.11ad WiFi and the 802.11ac MU-MIMO are part of the Snapdragon 820 network part and the company is supposed to show the first live demos later today. The latter paves the way for multi-gigabit transfers over Wi-Fi, such as 4K video streaming and large file transfers.

On top of that, the Snapdragon 820 will let tomorrow’s smartphones perform a whole bunch of new tricks. After all, the smartphone has largely replaced the dedicated point-n-shoot (though not the DSLR…yet) for things like selifes, food pictures, and everything else we see fit to post to Facebook and Twitter. Their Spectra Image Sensor Processor (14-bit dual-ISP) coupled with this “Snapdragon Scene Detect” exploit deep learning technology to get better as it trains with more data, and Qualcomm says their technology can deliver better adaptive brightness and noise reduction. That depends on what it can do better than the one in your pocket now. Why three? Think of a smartphone with a front-facing camera and two rear lenses for depth-of-field photography.