Qualcomm Announces MSM8926 - Snapdragon 400 with Quad Core A7s and Cat 4 LTE

Quite a long time ago, Qualcomm announced MSM8x26, a midrange Snapdragon 400 class SoC built on a 28nm LP process consisting of four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs running at 1.2 GHz alongside an Adreno 305 GPU. That SoC previously came in two flavors, MSM8226 and MSM8626, which connoted the usual combination of either just 3GPP suite air interfaces (HSDPA up to 21.1 Mbps, GSM/EDGE, TD-SCDMA, Dual SIM, Dual Active - DSDA for short) for 8226, or 3GPP and 3GPP2 (the same HSDPA up to 21.1, plus 1x/EVDO) for 8626. 

Today Qualcomm has announced a newer version of that Snapdragon 400 SoC, MSM8926. If you've followed Qualcomm's part numbers, this should be self explanatory - it has LTE. It's essentially the same 8x26 SoC (still quad core ARM Cortex A7s at 1.2 GHz and Adreno 305), but this time includes the modem IP block from the upcoming MSM8974 and MDM9x25 family, which means Category 4 LTE (FDD/TDD) with support for carrier aggregation and DC-HSPA+ in addition to the other legacy 3G interfaces you'd expect. Qualcomm says to expect MSM8926 to become available late 2013.

Update: Clocks for both the Adreno 305 and Cortex A7s are unchanged, MSM8926 also supports LPDDR3 in addition to LPDDR2. 

Source: Qualcomm