Qualcomm debuts Kryo custom CPU for the Snapdragon 820
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 SoC is an ambitious one. We already know that the company is targeting 40% improvements for graphics performance and power consumption with the chip's Adreno 530 GPU. Today, the company is throwing us another bone with details of the chip's custom CPU block, called Kryo.
Kryo is a 64-bit, quad-core processor built on a 14-nm FinFET process, and Qualcomm says it'll be able to reach speeds up to 2.2GHz. What's more, Kryo is supposed to deliver twice the performance of the Snapdragon 810 ...