Windows 10: Snapdragon 855 will be 7nm and support 5G with Snapdragon X50 modem

Brink · Aug 22, 2018

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), announced that its upcoming flagship mobile platform will feature a system-on-chip (SoC) built on the 7nm process node. The 7nm SoC can be paired with the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 5G modem, which is expected to be the first 5G-capable mobile platform for premium tier smartphones and other mobile devices. Qualcomm Technologies has begun sampling of its upcoming flagship mobile platform to multiple OEMs developing next-generation consumer devices. The upcoming platform will transform industries, encourage new business models and improve the consumer experience as operators come online with 5G services later in 2018 and through 2019.

“We are very pleased to be working with OEMs, operators, infrastructure vendors, and standards bodies across the world, and are on track to help launch the first 5G mobile hotspots by the end of 2018, and smartphones using our next-generation mobile platform in the first half of 2019,” said Cristiano Amon, president, Qualcomm Incorporated. “Qualcomm Technologies’ continued leadership in research and engineering allows for a future of increased innovation across multiple sectors as 5G connectivity becomes ubiquitous.”

This flagship mobile platform with 5G is designed to enable premium connected devices that bring new intuitive experiences and interactions with power-efficient on-device AI, superior battery life, and performance while extending globally to innovative technologies, solutions, experiences and applications in automotive and IoT.

Full details regarding the next-generation flagship mobile platform from Qualcomm Technologies is planned to be announced in the fourth quarter of 2018.
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Source: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releas...form-customers

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Brink · Aug 22, 2018

Snapdragon X20 modem: Globalizing Gigabit LTE

Gigabit LTE has been making tremendous strides recently. The world’s first Gigabit LTE device and mobile network are now fully commercial and available to consumers. Several operators around the world have announced plans to deploy or trial Gigabit LTE in 2017, including three out of the four leading U.S. mobile operators. And we’re less than a week away from Mobile World Congress, where we will see the first Gigabit LTE smartphones being announced.

And this is in large part thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE modem. Announced about a year ago, Snapdragon X16 is at the heart of the leading-edge Gigabit LTE devices. And because it’s integrated into the Snapdragon 835 mobile platform, consumers can look forward to many smartphones to be released throughout this year with Gigabit LTE capability.

But we are not resting on our laurels.

Today Qualcomm Technologies announced our second generation Gigabit LTE modem: the Snapdragon X20 LTE modem. It is the first-announced modem to support Category 18 download speeds up to a blistering 1.2 Gbps. We’re way past the Gigabit barrier now.

That’s a 20 percent boost in download speeds versus the previous generation. But that’s not the most important improvement in Snapdragon X20. Rather, it’s the fact that it now supports more combinations of LTE carriers, 4x4 MIMO configurations, and a higher number of total LTE spatial streams. This way, it can provide vastly expanded flexibility for more operators around the world to deploy Gigabit LTE.

For example, the Snapdragon X16 LTE modem supported two configurations to reach Gigabit LTE speeds. Snapdragon X20 supports eight configurations, using different permutations of carrier aggregation (up to 5xCA) and 4x4 MIMO.

Just like Snapdragon X16, Snapdragon X20 supports License Assisted Access(LAA) technology, which allows operators to use freely-available unlicensed spectrum to deploy LTE services. But the Snapdragon X20 has an important edge, because of its added spectrum flexibility. Whereas Snapdragon X16 reduced the requirement to deploy Gigabit LTE to one licensed 20 MHz LTE anchor, Snapdragon X20 reduces it even further to as little as 10 MHz!

The implications of this are massive. With Snapdragon X16’s 20 MHz licensed LTE anchor requirement, we expanded the pool of operators that can deploy Gigabit LTE from 16 percent to 64 percent. With the further reduction of the requirement to only 10 MHz, a full 90 percent of the world’s operators can deploy Gigabit LTE.

And this is the true power of our second-generation Gigabit LTE modem. Yes, it is designed to support even higher peak speeds and higher capacity. But more importantly, it can help globalize Gigabit LTE on a scale that simply wasn’t possible before.

There are other important new features in Snapdragon X20. It supports Dual SIM Dual VoLTE (DSDV) technology, a new generation of dual SIM technology. With many networks migrating from 2G and 3G voice services over to VoLTE, users can now enjoy the clarity of HD and Ultra HD Voice (EVS) on both SIMs. Additionally, Snapdragon X20 supports the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band, which can allow LTE networks in the U.S. to expand their capacity even further. It can even support private LTE networks for enterprise, industrial, and IoT applications.

Built in a leading-edge 10nm FinFET process, the Snapdragon X20 LTE modem is currently sampling to customers. We expect the first products powered by the Snapdragon X20 LTE modem to be available in the first half of 2018.
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Source: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdr...ng-gigabit-lte

btarunr · Aug 22, 2018

Qualcomm to Build Snapdragon 5G SoCs on Samsung 7nm LPP EUV Process

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced the intention to expand their decade-long foundry relationship into EUV (extreme ultra violet) lithography process technology, including the manufacture of future Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G mobile chipsets using Samsung's 7-nanometer (nm) LPP (Low Power Plus) EUV process technology.

Using 7LPP EUV process technology, Snapdragon 5G mobile chipsets will offer a smaller chip footprint, giving OEMs more usable space inside upcoming products to support larger batteries or slimmer designs. Process improvements, combined with a more advanced chip design, are expected to bring significant improvements in battery life.

Last May, Samsung introduced 7LPP EUV, its first semiconductor process technology to use an EUV lithography solution. It is anticipated that EUV lithography deployment will break the barriers of Moore's law scaling, paving the way for single nanometer semiconductor technology generations.

Compared with its 10nm FinFET predecessors, Samsung's 7LPP EUV technology not only greatly reduces the process complexity with fewer process steps and better yield, but also allows up to a 40 percent increase in area efficiency with 10 percent higher performance or up to 35 percent lower power consumption.

"We are excited to lead the 5G mobile industry together with Samsung," said RK Chunduru, senior vice president, supply chain and procurement, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "Using 7nm LPP EUV, our new generation of Snapdragon 5G mobile chipsets will take advantage of the process improvements and advanced chip design to improve the user experience of future devices."

"We are pleased to continue to expand our foundry relationship with Qualcomm Technologies in 5G technologies using our EUV process technology," said Charlie Bae, Executive Vice President of Foundry Sales and Marketing Team at Samsung Electronics. "This collaboration is an important milestone for our foundry business as it signifies confidence in Samsung's leading process technology."

WantedStarling · Aug 22, 2018

Nokia lumia 520,snapdragon s4 to snapdragon 800

Hi,recently I started reading about Microsoft that will do some changes to Cortana and one of those were including this

http://m.wpcentral.com/microsoft-working-passive-voice-activation-Cortana .So if you read under the second image it says that this change will be available only for snapdragon 800 processor,I want to ask if Lumia 520 can upgrade from snapdragon s4 to snapdragon
800.

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