The newer Krait versions are also built on the same 28nm technology that drove the original Krait, and are hence highly power efficient despite having higher clock speeds and better performance.
Combined with 4G LTE speeds and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Krait dual-core processor, first-time smartphone users can stream video, update their social media profiles, read reviews and more in seconds.
This is a welcome departure from past Atrix devices which took advantage of Tegra 2 and TI OMAP -- we much prefer the overall performance on Krait chipsets (more on this later).
That said, we have a feeling that Snapdragon's Krait architecture and asynchronously clocked cores will again prove that Tegra 3's 4-PLUS-1 design isn't the best solution for battery efficiency -- as many of you might already know.
He explained that the software remains as close as possible to what's available on the 600 and 800, but the hardware is scaled down to support lower-resolution displays and cameras by using ARM cores instead of the company's own Krait architecture.
The new Snapdragon 800 and 600 chipsets (the old S1-4 nomenclature has been replaced with 200-800) are built on two new versions of the Krait architecture, which Qualcomm introduced last year and has been very well adopted by the smartphone industry ever since.