Comments on: Chipmakers beware: Qualcomm unleashes the quad-core Snapdragon

By: Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:09:30 +0000

I am surprised in all the reviews which compares chips like OMAP,Exynos,Snapdragon, A5… they forget about the technology they are manufactured in as pointed out by tomas. Also two other things which should be considered is AREA and COST of the chip.

AREA : You can always make the low power and high speed but there is a cost involved which is covered by the customer. Snapdragon’s are bigger than nvidia’s tegras though they are manufactured in 28nm process compared to Tegra’s 40nm…. which speaks lot !!!

COST : As the Snapdragon is 28nm , what is the yield in it… from the reports we are seeing on the internet it is not that good in 28nm…. so again it changes the cost structure…..

I think the area and cost of the chip should be part of the analsys…..

Casing point is A5 processor in Apple in 40nm Samsung process…. much bigger than any of the other chips….still is “cheap” and “power efficient” than any of the other guys…. of course it sells a lot too…..

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:47:37 +0000

Yeah you’re right Tomas (neat trick with your handle), I should have mentioned how Qcom got to 28 nm first. I wanted to keep the post short and highlight the most significant technical differences, but in hindsight it should have been a sentence or two.

By: Bryan Bondurant

Bryan Bondurant — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:16:25 +0000

We can continue to develop high technology phones but as long as our infrastructure is operated and controlled like a mafia franchise new phone technology is useless.

I had two android phones and only one of them worked half the time, 90% over 3G. The phone that was not working is still not working correctly and that’s one hurricane, one month, 10 hours on the phone, 5 trips to dealers, and 20 emails equivalent to 5 hours writing (15 hours billable time if it were a client) and still nothing resolved.

I have even been passed off to Sprints VIP Resolution team which is about one step above completely useless. The point is why bother with a high tech phone if we do not have the infrastructure or support to use one as it was designed?

By: ʞǝɹɐɯ sɐɯoʇ

ʞǝɹɐɯ sɐɯoʇ — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:14:29 +0000

I think you forgot to mention one more advantage of Qualcom over competitors, i.e. its 28nm manufacturing process which secures higher power efficiency.