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Qualcomm delays dual-core mobile/ smart book CPU Bernard Cole San Francisco, Ca. - Qualcomm has delayed a promised dual-core Snapdragon processor for smart books from 2009 until the second-half of 2010. The dual-core Snapdragon QSD8672 is based on two Scorpion cores, which themselves are based on the ARM Cortex-A8 but modified by Qualcomm under an architectural license. The CPU was scheduled to be the first of a third generation of processors in Qualcomm's Snapdragon family for which it originally announced plans in November 2008. Based on a 45-nm manufacturing process, capable of a 1.5-GHz clock frequency were to have sampled in the second-half of 2009. That has not happened and the MSM8260 and MSM8660, announced earlier this month and also delayed, from 4Q09, were the first dual-core Snapdragons to emerge from Qualcomm. The MSM devices, also implemented on 45-nm have are said to operate at a clock frequency of up to 1.2-GHz. The MSM prefix indicates that these chips are aimed at the smartphone market, whereas the QSD prefix indicates chips intended for smart books. During the course of designing the QSD8672, the company said it had changed its priorities, with the QSD8672 sampling later this year. To learn more, go to www.qualcomm.com.
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