Snapdragon 660 & 630 Chips Feature High-Speed Charging & LTE Service At Reasonable Price

At a press event in Beijing, San Diego-based chip maker Qualcomm's has announced two systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) bound for future smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and computers: The Snapdragon 660 and 630. Highlights of the newly aarived include support for high-speed wireless, enhanced imaging, faster connectivity, and a cadre of processing improvements brought on by the new chips' 14nm manufacturing process.

The Snapdragon 660 is an eight-core chip consisting of four of Qualcomm's new Kyro 260 high-powered cores, which offer 20 percent higher performance, as per the company claims, clocked It sports an Adreno 512 graphics processor. The chip supports LPDDR4 memory running at 1,866MHz (up to 8GB), as reported by Digital Trends.

Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 660 And 630offer up to 30 percent better graphics performance and between 50 to 70 percent lower power consumption than their predecessors. The latest chips ship with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X12 modem, which is an LTE chip that released with last year's Snapdragon 821. It delivers download and upload speeds of up to 600Mbps and 150Mbps, respectively, and also presents Qualcomm's TruSignal technology and Bluetooth 5 to optimize voice quality, improve battery life, and extend network coverage.

Another highlight in Snapdragon 660 And 630is Quick Charge 4 technology, which was previously exclusive to the Snapdragon 835. The Snapdragon 660 And 630can charge 20 percent faster and 30 more efficiently than Quick Charge 3.0, Qualcomm said, which translates to five hours of talk time in five minutes and 50 percent battery in 15 minutes of charging.

According to The Verge, both the Snapdragon 660 And 630support up to 8GB of RAM, and were built with a 14nm process. The Snapdragon 660 has an eight-core Kryo 260 CPU and an Adreno 512 GPU, while the 630 chip has eight Cortex A53 cores and an Adreno 508 GPU.

Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 660 is now started shipping. For Snapdragon 630, buyers have to wait further as it will ship later this month.