In some unexpected news, Qualcomm has announced their new MSM8x60 chipset, a dual core processor supported on the Windows Phone platform along with several others including Android. At the moment, customers purchasing a high end device have come to expect a 1GHz CPU amongst some of the other usual specifications. Under Qualcomm's new chipset, users purchasing new phones could see those specifications increase with two cores up to 1.5GHz for fasting processing and response. The capabilities of this could therefore out perform other phones such as the iPhone 4 which runs at 1GHz.

While there are no specific phone details released, this does however show that work is being done to raise the bar in the future for the platform which launched less than a year ago. According to WPCentral, the chipset is featured in the new HTC EVO 3D which has the following details:

Dual Scorpion-cores up to 1.5GHz
Adreno 220 GPU
1080P video and playback
HDMI mirroring
Dolby 5.1
3D capturing and playback
16MP dual-camera support