Qualcomm Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 SoCs launched

• At the Qualcomm’s 4G/5G summit yesterday, the company announced three new SoCs aimed at low and mid-tier phones.
• The new SoCs are called the Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427. The three are upgraded versions of the Snapdragon 652, 626 and 425 SoCs respectively.
• The Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427, all feature the new X9 LTE modem along with support for Quick Charge 3.0 and Dual camera support.
• Regarding the X9 LTE (CAT 7 LTE) modem, it supports downlink speeds of up to 300 Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 150 Mbps.
• There is support for carrier aggregation which is said to improve both download and upload speeds.
• You also have 4G VoLTE support here and better call quality.
• While devices powered by the Snapdragon 653 and 626 are likely to hit the market by the end of this year, Snapdragon 427 powered devices will be coming to the market in early 2017.
• The Snapdragon 653 is basically a beefed up version of the Snapdragon 652, and gets a similar octa-core setup. Qualcomm has increased the clock speed of the A72 cores from 1.80GHz on the Snapdragon 652 to 1.92GHz on the Snapdragon 653. Apart from that the chipset uses the same Adreno 510 GPU, support for 8GB of RAM and has a new X9 LTE modem. It is still made using the 28nm manufacturing process.
• The newly announced Snapdragon 626 also brings a performance increase over the Snapdragon 625. It too has an 4+4 octa-core setup and uses Cortex A53 cores. It also uses the same Adreno 506 GPU that was introduced with the Snapdragon 625. The SoC still supports Dual ISPs, 24MP cameras and features the new X9 LTE modem. It is made using the 14nm manufacturing process.
• The Snapdragon 427 is a revised version of the Snapdragon 425 and uses the same A53 CPU with clock speeds going up to 1.4GHz. It sports an Adreno 308 GPU and the SoC can support cameras up to 16MP. However, all this is exactly the same as the Snapdragon 425 apart it comes in the form of X9 LTE modem. It also made using the 28nm manufacturing process.

Source: Digit, Phonebunch