Qualcomm working with Nokia on roadmap – several devices, several launches…
TechRadar reports that Qualcomm are working closely with Nokia to produce the roadmap – several devices across several launches.
When questioned about the consumer demand for dual-core, Enrico Salvatori, president of Qualcomm CDMA technologies in Europe said that the 1.4GHz single core (Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255) Nokia Lumia 800 was just the beginning, i.e. more powerful hardware to come?
Salvatori said,
“We are working on a roadmap [with Nokia] and not a single device, a single launch. It’s an important collaboration for Qualcomm, so we are very excited about working together. It’s been very effective in terms of time to market because we developed the phone together. It’s been a very successful development”
Salvatori noted the big achievement by Nokia and Qualcomm to get the Nokia Lumia handsets to the market within 6 months. Considering how long Nokia usually takes, it comparison it seems in the past 6 months Nokia has been travelling at light-speed.
Salvatori added that it was a big achievement for both the Nokia and Qualcomm teams to bring the devices to market inside six months.
TechRadar notes that Qualcomm has been speaking recently about their own roadmap, specifically QUADCORE 28nm Snapdragon S4, clock speeds up to a blazing 2.5GHz along with a new Adreno graphics processor.
Well, it would be nice if Nokia made a jump to Quadcore, no? One of the things with come backs, you have to make a stunning entrance and wow the audience. Nokia can’t afford to be delivering last year’s hardware (even though the OS may not need it) for the simple fact that these numbers are slowly becoming part of the marketing game, and thus the added desirability factor.
Thanks mrprince for the tip!
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the question is when, it seems that nokia is always want to be left over in terms of specs since n97 days , there good in design and camera though but that isnt enough to catch attention especially for thus who not yet like the wp7.
Android needs a spec game as its not well written or well optimised by the manufacturers. Android makers have little incentive to update the o/s that ships as they would rather you buy a new phone with the latest Android version than upgrade their existing phones to the latest version as there is no money in it for them.
What Nokia needs is a strategy not a gameplan where they throw enough designs and phones at the consumer. Apple sold loads of Iphones not because it had the best hardware but that for 2 years you would get updates to the o/s and the phone would still have decent value at the end of the 2 year contract.
Why should I invest in a Lumia when Nokia has said we will be shipping new phones every 3 months – you know what I will just wait and delay my purchase.
“Well, it would be nice if Nokia made a jump to Quadcore, no?”
Only if Windows Phone will support it soon enough.
Even if Dualcore supports for wp will come next year, this won’t mean that quadcore cpus will be possible too “already” in 2012
Can symbian run on Quad-Core Snapdragon? Or still limited to ARM?
S4 cpu are based on arm architecture
do you mean armv6/arm11？
Snapdragon is ARM, but technically Symbian doesn’t really run on any architecture, I have seen it crawl on a few though
symbian is lightweight Os, Quad-core will be too heavy for her.
No it wouldn’t be too heavy and the current kernel, as well as the underlying framework is suitable for multicore operations. But for what use!? You wouldn’t see any improvements, other than for games which are fully optimized or for grapihcal calculations, which no sane person would do with a mobile handset.
So I’d be perfectly happy to see Symbian running on a dualcore processor before it’s fading out, IF it is…
From what I have read. Symbian 3 supports muticore at the kernel level, but multicore support for the OS was to be implemented in Symbian 4. With the Feb change of direction & the rolling of future upgrades into “Symbian”, it is unclear if multicore is supported or ever will be. As the OS will now target low to mid level smart phones it makes sence to focus on single core with improved UI.
I do not know any of this to be fact. If anyone know different let me know.
Well, if there will be N8′s successor based on Symbian, it would be surprising if it won’t have 1080p video recording. And you need dual core Cortex-A9 for that.
The assumed MMP/GPU (BCM2763) used on newer Symbian devices supports 1080p. To support 1080p all you need is a GPU that supports it and the required memory bandwidth. A fast CPU maybe needed to do things like real-time image stabilization & other post-processing tasks.
Wow, I didn’t know that. So all this time, all those new Belle devices are capable of 1080p?
I have not seen confirmation that the new devices use BCM2763, but if they do then memory bandwidth should be only other limitation (do not know if this is a problem).
The do use the 2763, atleast Nokia’s own developer website says so: Broadcom BCM2763 chip, GPU @ 250 MHz with 128 MB
I originally had a very negative impression of the new Belle devices, but now knowing that they have that broadcom gpu capable of 20MP and 1080p and that they all have 1GHz CPU and 512 MB ram… they don’t sound so bad anymore. There’s the one thing about not being able to take macro shots, but that’s it!
Congratulations, US pension funds that hold Nokia stock. You not only made Nokia throw away an entirely European software ecosystem (Symbian/Maemo/Qt) in favor of Microsoft, you are now pulling Nokia away from ST-Ericsson (which is French/Swedish) to Qualcomm. (USA! USA! USA!)
Yeah, I could cry :-/
In all fairess, most big chip innovations stem from US companies AFAIK. ARM is even American and ARM delivers the design that ST-Ericsson uses to make their chips.
Not saying YAY USA! or anything like that, but do keep the perspective when saying USA sucks and kills Europe.
ARM is a British company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings
Woops, my bad. It is, a little fast on the draw there.
Nonetheless, even when Qualcomm produces ARM chips the license money flows back to Europe. How is that bad for Europe? Also, most chips these days are made with machines that come from ASML, a Dutch company. While production and brand names may derive from the US, a whole load of the back end still comes out of Europe. Be it designs or machines.
It’s just that the US seems to be better at making the final product where Europe provides more invisble parts of the whole production line.
Inetrestingly Europeans abandoned Nokia (European company) for iPhone and Galaxy which are America and Asian respectively.. Everyone wants good value for their money…
I don’t think they are pulling away from ST-Ericsson. They just can’t stay with a single CPU producer, they need to diversify their suppliers (price reasons etc).
Gah, this is the megapixel war all over again…
Nokia is always too late. See outside the htc edge has already have quadcore and will release in q1 of next year and nokia is still struggling to come out with dual core. But personally i don’t mind not having quadcore as they are only useless for mobile at least and a great battery drainer. Nokia should come vs with front facing camera as it is taking away many customers. I am very upset as i am still unable to see the successor of Nokia N8. I have eagerly waited for almost 7 months and still counting.
If it maintains the battery life of Symbian (or better), then yeah; I don’t mind a quad-core in a Nokia. 28 nm? Intel is going for the 22 and 19 nm.
Intel will release 22nm in first half 2012 (March-April) & 14nm in 2014.
TSMC will release 28nm in 2012 & 20nm after (no info on when).
Intel does not make chips for phones, so this advantage is only relevant in the desktop/laptop space.
What about ST-Ericsson then?
Fuck u Stephen Elop, US trojan horse!!!
+1
ST-Ericsson is still in the picture; besides, where was it ever said that a company only had to use one chip maker? Relax!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/02/st-ericsson-nokia-idUSL5E7M212020111102
I’m willing to bet that Nokia is also pulling in STE just so they can put a little bit more pressure on Qualcomm to either deliver at lower prices or innovate faster in their chip designs.
Qualcommm do need some pmpetition so I’m glad Nokia also working with ST-Ericsson, but bigger news would be Qualcomm doing Pentaband – right now mor eimportnant that the adroid spec pissing contest which windows phone and symbian should be pointing and laughing at. Not saying that progress shouldn’t be made in both processor speed and software performance, but both os’s don’t need as fast a chip as android does to perform well.
There is a reason why Nokia’s new HQ for North America is right next to Qualcomm’s
I don’t believe Qualcomm has any pentaband 3g chips currently available or in their immediate roadmap. No pentaband 3g means I don’t care if it has 8 cores and runs at 10Ghz.
+10000000 for a high-end Nokia CDMA handset. I might be the only American that cares, but I can’t wait.