Snapdragon 660 And 630 Bring Machine Learning Support, Optical Zoom To 'High-Tier' Smartphones

[Lucian Armasu]

The Snapdragon 660 and 630 are two of Qualcomm's new "High Tier" mobile platforms, which bring higher performance, better battery life, improved photography, and support for machine learning.

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[rantoc]

And in later news the self learning battery usage skyrockets to a whooping 50% as the add companies abuses the users own phones against them!

 

[bit_user]

A53 does sound pretty crummy, but I'd guess the 630 is probably aimed at highly cost-constrained handsets primarily sold in developing countries. It's probably the cheapest 64-bit ARM cores, in terms of licensing costs. It's probably second smallest, after the A35.

 

[heffeque]

"A53 does sound pretty crummy, but I'd guess the 630 is probably aimed at highly cost-constrained handsets primarily sold in developing countries."
Not everyone needs $600 phones to check Facebook or Instagram at 120fps. Even the SD430 can be considered more than enough for most use-case scenarios.