Windows 10: Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 712 Mobile Platform

Brink · Feb 7, 2019

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 Mobile Platform packs all the AI smarts and premium features of its predecessor, the Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform, and adds performance boosts that make it a powerhouse for gaming and beyond. Our Snapdragon 7 Series is all about bringing premium features to more devices, and this latest offering is no different.

Here’s a closer look at the Snapdragon 712:

Better performance for superior multimedia experiences

Like the Snapdragon 710, this next-generation mobile platform is built on a 10-nm process and the sophisticated, multicore Qualcomm AI Engine, consisting of the Qualcomm Kryo 360 CPU, Qualcomm Adreno 616 GPU, and the Qualcomm Hexagon 685 DSP. Snapdragon 712 provides up to a 10 percent increase in performance over Snapdragon 710, providing elevated multimedia and other mobile experiences that are as technologically advanced as they are efficient and affordable.

In gaming, this translates to faster processing and graphics rendering that will keep sports, multiplayer, and any other types of games running smoothly and reacting quickly. The Adreno 616 GPU is specifically designed to allow you to enjoy console-like gaming and cinematic movie experiences on your smartphone, rendering over one billion shades of colors. And the Qualcomm Aqstic audio technology delivers incredible sound quality, making the gaming experience even more immersive.

Everything you love about Snapdragon 710

In addition to enhanced gaming features, the Snapdragon 712 is packed with the premium features mobile users crave.

The platform integrates the Snapdragon X15 LTE Modem, which lets you connect quickly and enjoy lightning-fast speeds. Designed to tap into several enhanced 4G LTE features and with support for 4x4 MIMO and License-Assisted Access (LAA), it supports the connectivity for your apps, experiences, and overall busy life. Plus with download speeds over twice as fast as typical LTE Advanced capability, downloading an HD movie or your favorite band’s latest album is engineered to be quick and painless — even in crowded areas or remote locations.

With the Qualcomm Spectra 250 camera ISP, the Snapdragon 712 pushes the boundaries for camera and multimedia playback. The platform supports 10 bits of color depth and can capture and display vibrant, high-quality photos and 4K videos, so you can enjoy rich, deep graphics. Helping bring your multimedia content to life is video noise reduction with motion compensated temporal filtering, which lets you capture video in brilliant detail. Still photography is enhanced too; multi-frame noise reduction lets you take multiple photos simultaneously and then stitches them together to create a high quality shot.

Smart, fast AI is one of the biggest perks of the Snapdragon 712. The same multicore engine that’s boosting gaming is also responsible for running other cutting-edge applications and features, such as camera and voice. Take camera, for example: the Qualcomm AI Engine knows your setting preferences and automatically adjusts to them, and it can also detect if you’re shooting in low light and then raise the foreground lighting to help you take the best shot possible.

What’s more, all of this is happening efficiently. The Snapdragon 712 is engineered to optimize your battery life, saving it in the short and long term. The platform’s heterogeneous computing structure helps balance your application’s workloads, maintain low thermals, and optimize for power and performance so your applications can run fast continually. It also supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ technology, which can bring your battery from 0 to 50 percent in just 15 minutes*.

With all the premium features of the Snapdragon 710 plus new performance enhancements, our newest mobile platform packs virtually everything needed to deliver an elevated mobile experience. Whether you’re a gamer, photographer, or just someone who wants an incredible mobile experience, Snapdragon 712-powered smartphones will be there to deliver it.
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Qualcomm Announces New Flagship Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform

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During the second day of the annual Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), unveiled the newest generation in the 8 Mobile Platform Series, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 855 Mobile Platform. This is the world’s first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G, industry-leading AI and immersive extended reality (XR) collectively, ushering in a new decade of revolutionary mobile devices. Using new chip architectures built on leading 7nm process technology, Snapdragon 855 will offer users long-lasting battery life and superior experiences in areas such as imaging, audio, gaming and XR.

“As operators launch 5G networks in early 2019, consumers will for the first time be able to take advantage of transformative 5G consumer experiences on mobile devices with Snapdragon 855,” said Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager, mobile, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are proud to share our technology inventions and be among the first to bring mobile 5G to the world.”

Connectivity: The Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform unleashes transformative 5G experiences to the world, with the Snapdragon X50 5G modem, while harnessing the best in multi-gigabit 4G connectivity with the built in Snapdragon X24 LTE modem. With Snapdragon X50, this platform supports 5G for both Sub-6 GHz and mmWave frequency bands, providing blazing-fast responsiveness and unprecedented speeds. It is designed to deliver Multi-Gigabit speeds that were previously unachievable in mobile communication. In mmWave frequency bands, users can expect up to 20x faster average performance compared to some of the current commercial solutions, to master the extreme data demands of today and pave the way for next-generation immersive experiences, including multiplayer VR gaming, shopping with AR, and real-time video collaboration. Snapdragon 855 also offers powerful next generation Wi-Fi performance via the Qualcomm® Wi-Fi 6-ready mobile platform, including advanced features like 8x8 sounding to serve more devices more efficiently (up to 2x improvement over 4x4 sounding devices), Target Wakeup Time for up to 67% better power efficiency, and the latest security with WPA3. Snapdragon 855 also supports mmWave Wi-Fi, utilizing the Qualcomm® 60 GHz Wi-Fi mobile platform. This industry first 802.11ay-based platform takes Wi-Fi speeds up to an unprecedented 10 Gbps and brings wire-equivalent low latency. Snapdragon 855 also enhances its support for Qualcomm TrueWireless™ Stereo Plus technology to meet growing demands in the headset and hearables markets for truly wireless devices by optimizing for low latency between left and right earbuds as well as lowering the power consumption allowing longer listening time per battery charge.

Performance: Snapdragon 855 is engineered to deliver industry leading performance and efficiency. It features our cutting-edge Qualcomm® Kryo™ 485 CPU built on Arm Cortex Technology, offering up to a 45% performance improvement over our previous generation flagship platform. The new Qualcomm® Adreno™ 640 GPU provides up to 20% faster graphics than the previous generation while continuing to lead the industry in performance per watt. Gaming experiences using Adreno graphics will achieve a new level of realism with through support of Vulkan 1.1, high dynamic range (HDR), and physically based rendering (PBR).

AI: Snapdragon 855 features the 4th generation multi-core Qualcomm® AI Engine, which offers a total capacity of more than 7 trillion operations per second (7 TOPs), and 3x the AI performance compared to the previous generation mobile platform. The all new Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 690 Processor includes a newly designed Hexagon Tensor Accelerator (HTA) and four Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX) - a doubling of vector processing from our previous generation flagship, plus four scalar threads, all of which provide a powerful blend of dedicated and programmable AI acceleration. Adreno GPU hardware enhancements that improve AI acceleration include 50% more arithmetic logic units, and new instructions to further accelerate AI performance have been added to the all-new Kryo 485 CPU. The 4th gen Qualcomm AI Engine software suite brings a number of enhancements to the Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK, Google’s Android NN-API, and to both Hexagon NN and the Qualcomm® Math Library. And a broader range of optimized network precisions and neural network classes are now available to support the surge of on-device AI voice, camera, gaming and XR user experiences, many of which are available from Qualcomm Technologies’ AI software collaborators and will be featured on next-generation Snapdragon 855 devices. The expanding roster of AI software collaborators taking advantage of 4th Gen Qualcomm AI Engine capabilities now includes AI Speech, AnyVision, iFlytek, Elevoc and Nalbi.In addition, Snapdragon 855 brings a more advanced on-device Voice Assistant using dedicated AI acceleration for echo cancellation and noise suppression, so users can talk to their Voice Assistant device at any time.

Camera: Snapdragon 855 sets new standards for capturing stunning photos and videos. The new Qualcomm Spectra™ 380 ISP integrates numerous hardware accelerated computer vision (CV) capabilities, enabling the world’s first announced CV-ISP to provide cutting-edge computational photography and video capture features while at the same time offering up to 4x power savings. The CV-ISP includes hardware-based depth sensing which enables video capture, object classification, and object segmentation all in real-time in 4K HDR at 60fps. This means a user can capture a video and accurately replace selected objects or backgrounds in the scene in real-time all with 4K HDR resolution using over 1 billion shades of color. Even further, the new Qualcomm Spectra 380 ISP is the first announced ISP to support video recording using HDR10+, so the more than 1 billion shades of color can be captured with exceptional contrast and visual brilliance. Finally, in order to efficiently store this amazing content, Snapdragon 855 adds hardware acceleration for HEIF file format encoding, reducing file sizes by 50% for efficiently saving and sending user generated content.

Entertainment: Snapdragon 855 provides consumers with an upgraded entertainment platform for more realistic gaming, improved cinematics, and higher performing XR.

Gaming: Snapdragon 855 is the first platform to offer our new Snapdragon Elite Gaming Experience. This experience includes cinematic color grading in true HDR (>1 billion colors), filmic tone-mapping, demanding physically based rendering (PBR), and support for the Vulkan 1.1 graphics library. Even the most demanding games will run smoother with the Snapdragon 855, with custom algorithms designed to reduce dropped frames by >90%. Multiplayer gaming is improved by reducing latencies, and the Snapdragon 855 platform lowers latency for users choosing the industry’s first 5G, the industry’s first 11ay-based 60GHz Wi-Fi, or simply algorithmic enhancements to reduce latencies using existing 802.11 standards. Finally, the audio experience has been upgraded with the new Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive audio codec and support for Qualcomm TrueWireless Stereo Plus. aptX adaptive is designed to provide the ultimate wireless listening experience by combining robust premium audio quality with significantly lower latency for gaming and multimedia applications.

Movies: The enhanced cinema experience will also enable HDR10+ playback – a commercial first on mobile. Users can also watch more movies on a single charge, as newly introduced hardware accelerated H.265 and VP9 decoding offers higher energy efficiency.

XR: Snapdragon 855 also enables volumetric virtual reality (VR) immersive video experience at 8K resolutions. This, in addition to many of the new capabilities already described, gives users the ultimate freedom to watch, learn, play and share dynamic experiences in real time, even further blurring the visual lines between physical and virtual worlds.

The Snapdragon 855 is the first mobile platform to support the new Qualcomm® 3D Sonic Sensor, the world’s first commercial ultrasonic fingerprint solution supported under the display. This is the only mobile solution that can accurately detect fingerprints through numerous contaminants. Furthermore, this technology enables sleek, cutting-edge form factors while distinguishing itself from alternatives with higher levels of security and accuracy.

The Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform is currently sampling to customers and is expected to begin shipping in commercial devices in 1H 2019. Snapdragon 855 will power the next generation of premium flagship devices and launch the world into a new decade of more immersive and connected user experiences. For more information please visit Qualcomm’s site at Snapdragon Mobile Platforms, Processors, Modems and Chipsets | Qualcomm.

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 855 Mobile Platform features include:

Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence Engine

Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 690 Processor

Qualcomm® Adreno™ 640 GPU

Qualcomm® Kryo™ 485 CPU

Connectivity

Snapdragon X24 LTE modem LTE Category 20

Snapdragon X50 5G modem (for 5G devices)

Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6-ready mobile platform: 802.11ax-ready, 802.11ac Wave 2, 802.11a/b/g/n.

Qualcomm 60 GHz Wi-Fi mobile platform: 802.11ay, 802.11ad

Bluetooth Version: 5.0

Bluetooth Speed: 2 Mbps

High accuracy location with dual-frequency GNSS

Qualcomm Spectra™ 380 Image Signal Processor

Dual 14-bit CV-ISPs; 22MP @30 fps concurrent dual cameras; 48MP @ 30 fps single camera

Hardware CV functions including object detection & tracking (Histogram of Oriented Gradients, Harris Corner Detection, Normalized Cross Correlation, Linear classification and optical flow) and stereo depth processing

Advanced HDR solution including improved zzHDR and 3-exposure Quad Color Filter Array (QCFA) HDR

4K60 HDR video capture (HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG) with Portrait Mode (bokeh), 10-bit color depth and Rec. 2020 color gamut

Hardware-based Multi-Frame Noise Reduction (MFNR) for snapshot and Motion Compensated Temporal noise Filtering (MCTF) for video

Hardware-based Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) solution within camera subsystem

A new modular ISP design with more flexibility to tap in and out of the imaging pipeline both in the RAW and YUV pixel domains

High frame rate capture for slow motion video (720p @ 480fps)

HEIF photo capture, HEVC (H.265) video capture

Audio

Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio technology

Qualcomm® aptX™ support, including classic aptX, aptX HD and aptX adaptive

Qualcomm TrueWireless™ Stereo Plus

Qualcomm® Adreno™ Visual Subsystem

Adreno 640 GPU

Vulkan 1.1 API support

HDR gaming (10-bit color depth, rec 2020 color gamut)

Physically Based Rendering

API Support: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0 FP, Vulkan 1.1

Maximum On-Device Display Support: Up to 4K HDR

Maximum External Display Support: Up to two 4K HDR displays

Hardware-accelerated H.265 and VP9 decoder

HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision

Volumetric VR video playback

8K 360 VR video playback

Qualcomm® Kryo™ 485 CPU

One Prime core clock speed: Up to 2.84GHz

Three Performance cores clock speed: Up to 2.42GHz

Four Efficiency cores clock speed: Up to 1.80GHz

Architecture: 64-bit

Process

7nm Process Technology

Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 690 Processor

Secure Processing capability

Quad threaded Scalar Core

Four Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX)

Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator

Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Voice Assistant

Qualcomm All-Ways Aware™ technology

Security

Qualcomm® Biometric Authentication Suite: Fingerprint, Qualcomm® Iris Authentication, Voice, Face, Qualcomm® Secure Processing Unit enabling mobile payments

Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4+ Technology

Memory

Memory Speed: 2133MHz

Memory Type: 4x16bit, LPDDR4x

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Brink · Feb 7, 2019

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), has introduced the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 710 Mobile Platform, built on 10nm process technology. The Snapdragon 710 is designed with highly efficient architectures for artificial intelligence, featuring a multi-core AI Engine and neural network processing capabilities. The Snapdragon 710 is the first mobile platform in the new 700-tier portfolio, designed to exceed what is expected from today’s high-tier mobile experiences by bringing select premium-tier features to a broader audience.

“The Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform is the first in the newly defined and highly significant 700-tier, offering technologies and features previously only available in our premium-tier mobile platforms,” said Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “By incorporating key AI capabilities and performance advancements, the Snapdragon 710 is designed to transform our customers products into the ultimate personal assistant, enhancing critical everyday consumer experiences, such as high-end camera features that will benefit from on-device high-speed AI processing, without sacrificing battery life.”

The Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform provides new architectures, engineered to result in significant performance improvements over the 600-tier in the following areas:

AI: The new platform transforms the smartphone into a customized experience for users across camera and voice, powered by a multi-core AI Engine, delivering up to 2X overall performance improvements in AI applications, as compared to Snapdragon 660. Utilizing AI capabilities, the Snapdragon 710 makes it virtually effortless to capture and share contextually-aware photos and videos and personalize voice and speech patterns for more natural interactions. Through heterogeneous computing, the Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform’s newly enhanced architectures, including the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP, Qualcomm® Adreno™ Visual Processing subsystem and Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU, are engineered to work harmoniously to run on-device AI applications quickly, intuitively and efficiently.

Capture: The new Qualcomm Spectra™ 250 ISP supports enhancements in capturing professional-grade quality photos and videos with superior low light photography, noise reduction, fast autofocus, image stabilization, smooth zoom and real-time bokeh effects. The Qualcomm Spectra 250 ISP is designed to deliver super resolutions with up to 32MP single ISP and 20MP dual ISP. Additionally, the AI Engine in the Snapdragon 710 supports smooth, speedy video style transfer, deep portrait modes and Face ID / Unlock with active depth sensing.

Display: The Snapdragon 710 features 4K HDR playback for viewing HDR videos and apps – also a first outside the premium 800-tier. The addition of 4K HDR playback brings greater brightness, wider color gamut and color depth to the Snapdragon 710, resulting in enhanced visual quality when viewing 4K HDR supported content over the most popular video streaming services.

Connectivity: The Snapdragon 710 features the new Snapdragon X15 LTE modem, a Category 15 LTE modem that supports up to 800 Mbps download speeds. It brings some of the most advanced 4G LTE technologies to the 700-tier, including 4x4 MIMO technology (on up to 2 aggregated carriers) for up to 70% faster download speeds in weak signal conditions, and License-Assisted Access (LAA) for faster speeds in crowded places, compared to phones that don’t support these features.

The Snapdragon 710 also offers an advanced suite of wireless technologies including cutting edge Wi-Fi features, Bluetooth 5, Qualcomm® Broadcast Audio and Qualcomm TrueWireless™ Stereo Plus to support wire-free listening experiences without wires between the left and right earbuds whilst delivering an enhanced user experience, including call voice in both ears, lower latency and longer battery life in the headset.

Performance and Battery: The platform’s new architectures are engineered to deliver superior power efficiency, long-lasting battery life and an overall enhanced user experience. Due to enhancements to the Adreno 616 Visual Processing Subsystem architecture, Snapdragon 710-based devices can expect to see up to 40% reduction in power consumption for both gaming and 4K HDR video playback, as well as a 20% reduction in power consumption when streaming video, when compared to Snapdragon 660. Additionally, the new Kryo 360 architecture, built on ARM® Cortex™ technology, is optimized to support up to a 20% overall uplift in performance, 25% faster web browsing and 15% faster app launch times, compared to the Snapdragon 660.

With the latest Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4+ technology, users can get a 50% battery charge within 15 minutes.

The Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform is available today and is expected to be found in consumer devices in the second quarter of 2018.

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Brink · Feb 7, 2019

Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform for Windows 10 PCs

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Today at Computex, Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., announced at its press conference a joint effort with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd to integrate the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 850 Mobile Compute Platform, featuring the cutting-edge Snapdragon X20 and Qualcomm® AI Engine in a future device. “Building on the portfolio of Always On, Always Connected PCs established over the past year, we are thrilled to work with Samsung to help offer consumers true mobility combined with the productivity and entertainment features of Windows 10,” said Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager, mobile business unit, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “To truly expand this category, our work with mobile leaders like Samsung is important to help us deliver the next generation of Always On, Always Connected PCs to consumers.”

The Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform is designed to support many sought-after smartphone features in the PC and to stay connected to LTE or Wi-Fi so users can receive notifications and have their data virtually always synced on the go. The power-efficient architecture is engineered to support up to 30 percent system-wide increase in performance and up to 3X AI performance over the previous generation, as well as up to 1.2 gigabits per second LTE connectivity speeds and up to 25 hours of continuous usage or multi-day battery life under normal usage conditions*.

“At Samsung, we understand the unique needs of our consumers and aim to create new innovations to support their ‘on-the-go’ lifestyle,” said Kyungsik Choi, executive vice president and head of strategic marketing office, mobile communications business, Samsung Electronics. “This collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and their Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform will allow us to provide always on, always connected mobile computing experiences for our customers.”

With 10nm leading node efficiency, the Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform allows for sleeker and more portable, fanless designs for mobile customers, compared to current 14nm solutions. In addition, new and improved features on the Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform can support on-device experiences for AI, and users can expect camera, voice and battery life enhancements. In addition, advanced graphics and high-quality audio is designed to allow users to maximize their entertainment while viewing or capturing, all while bringing a Windows 10 experience, complete with productivity utilizing Cortana, entertainment and security. Users can now create, collaborate, connect and share effortlessly on their Always On, Always Connected PC**.

Windows 10 devices powered by the Snapdragon Mobile Compute Platform are expected to be available in retail later this year. For more information on the Snapdragon Mobile Compute Platform, please visit Snapdragon Mobile Platforms, Processors, Modems and Chipsets | Qualcomm.

*Battery life varies significantly with settings, usage, and other factors.

**Requires network connection.
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