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A month after Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile processor, the chipmaker followed it up by announcing four new members of the lower-tier Snapdragon family which are expected to make its way to mobile devices starting on the second half of this year. Two of the four new SoCs that were launched belong to the Snapdragon 400 series namely the Snapdragon 415 and Snapdragon 425; both of which boasts eight (8) Cortex-A53 processing cores which are divided in two groups with varying clock speeds and are accompanied by an Adreno 405 GPU. Both of these SoCs are equipped with a quad-core Cortex-A53 processors clocked 1.2Ghz which are assigned to take care of the menial tasks. All of Qualcomm’s new processor are LTE-capable, albeit the Snapdragon 415 only has Qualcomm X5 LTE module which is peaks at 150Mbps DL and 50Mbps UL, while the rest of the gang are equipped with a Qualcomm X8 LTE modem which are capable of download and upload speeds of up to 300Mbps and 100Mbps respectively. Source | Via Related: What exactly can the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 offer? Qualcomm has just set a new benchmark for mobile computing with the announcement of its Snapdragon X2 Elite platform for PCs. Unveiled here in Maui, Hawaii (Editor's Note: Qualcomm flew us here for free with accommodations), the X2 Elite series boasts up to 18 cores using the third-gen Oryon CPU architecture, and a multi-core speed of up to 5.0 GHz boost frequencies, making it one of the fastest ARM-based chips for Windows PCs in 2025. Read more in our articles including "Qualcomm Adds 4 New Snapdragon 400/600 Processors" and "Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite, 18-core SoC for PC".