The folks at Qualcomm have come out of the gates swinging with a very exciting announcement this morning. The leading mobile chipset vendor has announced two new SoCs that should blow the pants off of everyone based on the numbers they have initially thrown at us.

The chips, dubbed the Snapdragon 600 and 800, are said to be extremely powerful, besting the Snapdragon S4 Pro series by a minimum of 40%. Specifically, the Snapdragon 600 is said to be 40% more powerful than the S4 Pro, and it’ll have a Krait-based quad-core CPU with up to 1.9GHz per core for clock speed. The chip will also house an Adreno 320 GPU and support LRDDR3 memory.

On the other hand, the Snapdragon 800 is said to be 75% better than the S4 Pro. This Krait-based chipset is really a doozie, though, as its four cores can each be clocked to speeds of up to 2.3GHz. It’ll have an Adreno 330 GPU, which is said to be two times better than the 320. Support for up to 2560×2048 display resolution and 1080p resolution via Miracast is miraculous, and the ability to record, playback and display 4K video — while not essential for the common consumer right now — is very nice.

Qualcomm faces stiff competition from NVIDIA who has also revealed its latest embedded wares earlier this week. Both companies are battling for position in the mobile realm as the top two chipset vendors as TI has all but ended its ambitious journey.

Samsung can still compare to anyone in the game, technologically speaking, but good luck finding an Exynos device outside of its own range. 2013 will be a very exciting year for mobile, it seems, so buckle in and brace yourself for what should be an onslaught of extremely powerful devices later this year. Read on for full press details.