Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 announced

Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon 821, which is apparently 10 percent faster than the Snapdragon 820.

The Snapdragon 821 is very similar to the Snapdragon 820, as it still includes a lot of the tech from the 820, such as the 600 Mbps X12 LTE modem. according to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 821 includes a clock speed of 2.4GHz, up from the Snapdragon 820’s 2.15GHz. According to Qualcomm, we will be seeing the 821 on drones, tablets, robots, virtual reality headset, and of course, smartphones.

Qualcomm did not reveal if this would use the same Adreno 530 GPU, but the clock speed will likely be higher than 624 MHz in the Snapdragon 820.Other features are similar, including integrated 600 Mbps X12 LTE modem, Support for up to 4K Ultra HD and Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0.

Snapdragon 820 currently powers some of the most advanced, feature rich smartphones today, 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 we’ve included in Snapdragon 821 will help keep devices powered by Snapdragon 800 premium-tier processors at the top of people’s shopping lists into the foreseeable future.

Qualcomm said that Snapdragon 821-powered devices can be expected in the second half of 2016.

HTC Nexus 2016 devices, Samsung Galaxy Note7 , Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe , LeEco and other flagship that are coming later this year and early next year are expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 821.