If you’re rockin’ a first-gen Snapdragon processor that “crawls” along at 1GHz, be prepared to feel mighty outdated. Today at MWC, Qualcomm took the wraps off of their new high-end processor, the AP8064. This quad-core — yes, quad core mobile beast runs through the gates at a blistering 2.5GHz. Tag teaming your mobile experience will be an Adreno 320 quad-core gpu. Obviously, things like HD gaming and 3D capture/playback (and pretty much everything else short of world domination) will be chump change for this chip.

But not everyone needs mobile quad core chips. Catering to other areas of the market is done with a dual-core (MSM8960) and single-core (MSM8930) processors. All of these chips revealed today are built upon Qualcomm’s 28nm “Krait” architecture. Look for the dual-core (MSM8960) engineering samples to start making their way out in Q2 while the single core (MSM8930) and quad-core (APQ8064) won’t see the light of day until early 2012.

A show of hands please for everyone who wants the quad-core Qualcomm chip…now.

Source: Qualcomm