Qualcomm Inc is boosting the performance of the high end of its flagship chip line, aiming to bring new features to smartphones and tablets by early next year.

The San Diego-based company on Monday is announcing two new additions to its Snapdragon family, adding faster communications capability, more lifelike image rendering and support for 4K video, the successor to today's high-definition TV. Both chips add 64-bit computing capability, an advance common in PCs and server systems that allows hardware to exploit larger pools of memory.

Snapdragons are already among the most popular chips in the smartphone field, combining cellular communications, computing and other functions on a single piece of silicon. Some models of Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +1.23% 's new Galaxy S5, for example, use Snapdragons instead of internally built Samsung chips.

Murthy Renduchintala, executive vice president of Qualcomm's chip unit, noted that the LTE wireless capability on the new Snapdragon 808 and 810 models can use multiple frequency bands to deliver data at up to 300 megabits per second, compared with a maximum peak speed of 150 megabits on prior models.

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