Qualcomm today detailed the processor behind the HP TouchPad. It confirmed that the Snapdragon APQ8060 was launching first with the webOS tablet and had large amounts of headroom. The dual-core, 1.2GHz processor uses new Adreno 220 graphics and can play 1080p stereoscopic 3D, it said, even if the TouchPad didn’t support it.
The processor can also render up to 16-megapixel still images from a camera or eight-megapixel 3D images. It can show a full 3D resolution either through an HDMI output or through a glasses-free, autostereoscopic panel.
No other companies are known to be using the APQ8060 so far. Most Android 3.0 tablet designers are using NVIDIA’s competing Tegra 2.
