From PC World: Qualcomm is planting the seeds for 4K video and faster LTE speeds in more affordable smartphones with its new Snapdragon 620 and 618 processors, which will reach devices in the second half of this year.
The new chips could be in smartphones priced at $300 and above, and some performance and 4K features are being cascaded from the Snapdragon 810 chip, which goes into premium smartphones priced above $500.
Previous Snapdragon 600 series chips have appeared in a few handsets and phablets from HTC, Samsung and LG. Amazon’s Fire TV also uses a Snapdragon 600 chip and is able to deliver full high-definition video to TV sets.
The new 600 series chips are built to support Android and Windows, said Tim McDonough, vice president of marketing at the company.
Smartphones won’t have 4K screens, but they are being becoming devices through which ultra-high-definition videos or games can be streamed to larger screens, said Bob O’Donnell, principal analyst at Technalysis Research.
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