Everyone, say hello to Raj Talluri.

Raj works for Qualcomm, and his job description basically reads “like a boss.” He’s the VP of Product Management, so he’s in charge of overseeing the development of the entire Snapdragon chip, from the Scorpion CPU to the Adreno GPU, as well as Qualcomm’s other application processors. He started off the roundtable with a demonstration of the next generation Snapdragon development platform, with a Snapdragon MSM8x60 processor inside. 

The MSM8x60 has two Scorpion cores clocked at 1.2GHz and the Adreno 220 GPU, is built on the 45 nm process, and is set to show up in smartphones and tablets later this year. Like other Qualcomm SoCs, there are two variants - the 8260 and the 8660. The 8260 has GSM, UMTS and HSPA+ support, while the 8660 adds support for CDMA2000, EV-DO Rev. 0, Rev. A, and Rev. B. Like we've seen with nearly all Qualcomm SoCs, 2 denotes GSM/UMTS and that suite of technologies, 6 adds CDMA2000 and EV-DO support.

The development platform is just a square handset, there’s no real industrial design to speak of. It’s mainly there to give developers a platform to use before handset manufacturers release the final hardware to market. Using that reference hardware, Qualcomm demoed a lot of different things, including physics-enabled games on the new Adreno 220 graphics processor, high definition stereoscopic 3D video, and multi-party video conferencing. Unlike Tegra 2, which can clock gate cores but cannot power gate the second core, scorpion cores can be independently turned off to conserve power as well as be clock gated. Qualcomm showed multi-page web-browsing with the second core enabled and disabled to illustrate the performance difference.

During this entire thing, Qualcomm was taking video of Raj and the rest of us bloggers talking, as well as post-roundtable interviews of the crew. There’s a great clip in here about Anand’s shoes that you really don’t want to miss!

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  • PubicTheHare - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - link

    So neither version of this chip supports LTE? Did they even talk about LTE?
  • EidolWays - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - link

    Not on this chip. LTE is on this guy: http://www.redferret.net/?p=24098
  • EidolWays - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - link

    Or, preferably, to link to Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4024/qualcomm-reveal...
  • JarredWalton - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - link

    So Anand does the lion's share of the talking at 1:04 to the end, but you can also catch Vivek at 0:17 for a second (but he's not talking). ;-)
  • fabarati - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Only other person I recognized. Where were you other guys?
  • DC211 - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Damn I've been pronouncing the website name wrong for years.
  • PubicTheHare - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Very nice, but sampling in 2011 pretty much means no phone with that chipset until at least Q2 2012. That's far too long of a wait for me.
  • 7Enigma - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Pretty funny. I was doing the same until about 6months ago when I showed a coworker an article and she corrected me. :) One of the many consequences of text-reading.
  • strikeback03 - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    I did until a year or two ago when someone actually asked how to pronounce Anand in the comments and Jarred replied.

    And lol at the shoes, my brother-in-law has some of those, though his are tan and dark green. Think he uses them for climbing.
  • juhatus - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Please anandtech go back to being a pc-tech site, do a sister site for mobile's or whatnot.

    I feel like Im reading about 386 processors with all these crapdragon and 5" displays again.

    Im sure im not alone, mobile's arent that interesting..

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