Last week, Qualcomm announced a follow-up to the successful Snapdragon 820 processor, a new flagship Snapdragon 821. The quad-core chip based on the custom Kryo cores chipset is engineered to deliver faster speed, improved power savings, and greater application performance, ensuring 821 powered devices keep pace with the growing performance demands of users.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 821 is engineered to deliver a 10% performance increase over the 820 with the Qualcomm Kryo quad-core CPU, reaching speeds up to 2.4GHz. The Snapdragon 820 introduced a number of highly optimized and custom-designed core technologies such as the X12 LTE modem. The X12 LTE modem is designed to support download speeds up to 600 Mbps, LTE uploads up to 3x as fast with Snapdragon Upload+, vastly improved call quality and reliability with Ultra HD Voice, all tightly integrated to deliver wide area connectivity to Snapdragon 820 devices worldwide.
The Snapdragon 820 currently powers some of the most advanced, feature rich smartphones including the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, Xiaomi Mi5, LG G5, HTC 10, LeEco LeMax 2, and Sony Xperia X. And because the Snapdragon 820 helped improve the user experience for mobile imaging, virtual reality, battery life, and connectivity speed and reliability, all the updates have been included in Snapdragon 821, said Qualcomm.
