The good news for those who are awaiting Qualcomm to ship 1.2 GHz Snapdragon devices is that those chips are set to go for a Q1 release in 2011. The bad news is that the more advanced dual-core Snapdragon chipsets are delayed until late 2011.

While Qualcomm was among the first to market with its single-core 1 Ghz processor, the company seems to be lagging behind competitors. NVIDIA has demonstrated multi-core chipsets and the company’s Tegra 2 chips are slated for LG smartphones. Additionally, Samsung has recently announced its dual-core Orion CPU. Both Orion and Tegra 2 promises up to 5X the graphics capabilities of current solutions.

(via: Engadget)