Qualcomm teases Snapdragon 820 and fingerprint scanning — androidauthority.com

At MWC 2015, Qualcomm announced its 3D ultrasonic finger print scanner technology and security measures, talked about its Zeroth machine learning platform, and teased a few details about its upcoming Snapdragon 820 processor. We鈥檒l start with the SoC news. Although Qualcomm hasn鈥檛 given out any hard details about what will go into its next flagship mobile processor, the company did reveal that it would be manufactured on a FinFET process. This likely means either TSMC鈥檚 16nm or Samsung鈥檚 14nm processes, which Samsung is using for the Galaxy S6鈥檚 Exynos 7420, will be used to reduce the chip鈥檚 power consumption and shrink down its size.

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