Asus’ Padfone runs on 28nm-Snapdragon S4 soc

The Padfone by Asus, a yet to be released smartphone that is in a tabletbehuizing can be inserted, will use Qualcomms new S4 platform. The MSM8960 in the Padfone is a 28nm dualcore soc clocked at 1.5 Ghz.

The processor type is leaking out through the online database of the graphics benchmark GLBenchmark, discovered Notebookitalia. At various places in the software of the phone is the name MSM8960. According to GLBenchmark, the chip on 918Mhz clocked and has the screen resolution of 960×540 pixels. The dualcore chip is part of Qualcomms high-end S4 platform in the first half of 2012 should come on the market. This is consistent with the release date that Asus for the Padfone has planned.

The MSM8960 is a 28nm process and use of a new processorontwerp codenamed Krait. Compared to the current Scorpion core should Krait more performance per kloktik supply, less power consumption and more memory bandwidth to deliver. The system-on-a-chip, which has two cores with a maximum clock speed of 1.5 Ghz, also includes a new gpu: the Adreno 225. This must be half faster than its predecessor.

Asus recently announced the Padfone in early 2012 and on Android 4.0 will run. The device at the Computex trade show in June for the first time was shown, consists of a full-fledged smartphone and a tabletomhulsel. The phone can be in the outer shell, after which the interface adapts, and on the screen of the tablet is shown.