Rumour has it that the much anticipated Nexus S will have a dual-core mobile processor. Perhaps you should believe what they say, because next year’s probably the year of dual-core smartphones. This year we see 1GHz mobile processor in nearly every single smartphone, so next year’s smartphone should be dual-core, according to Qualcomm at least. That’s because they’ve teased the upcoming Snapdragon processor, and its 28nm dual-core madness.

The company just announced that the new 28nm dual-core MSM8960 system-on-a-chip will have five times the performance and consume 75 percent less power than the original Snapdragon when it arrives in 2011. That’s some bloody hell great news! It’s got the usual dings and dongs of WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and FM radio modules but also a multi-mode LTE / 3G modem too, and reportedly four times the graphical muscle on board.

The dual-core Dragon will also have a partner to begin with, as Qualcomm separately took the time to detail a new GPU: the Qualcomm Adreno 300 series, which will allegedly offer the gaming performance of an Xbox 360 or PS3. That’s just blatantly speaking though, until the real deal actually comes out. But there’s no harm in daydreaming of playing your GT5 game on your next Droid phone.

SOURCE via Anandtech