Qualcomm's Next Flagship SoC Will be Called Snapdragon 835

Qualcomm has announced that its next flagship SoC for Android devices will be called the Snapdragon 835 which will be fabricated by Samsung on a 10nm FinFET process. The new chip will replace this year's Snapdragon 820 and Snapdragon 821 chips, and the first devices built around it will most likely debut at the next edition of the annual Mobile World Congress trade show in February 2017.

Details of the new Snapdragon 835's capabilities and specifications are limited. Qualcomm has only said that production is already underway. The new 10nm process should result in lower power draw per SoC, improving the device's battery efficiency and delivering higher performance. Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 835 will be able to deliver up to 27% higher performance while drawing 40% less power compared to the current 14nm Snapdragon 820 and 821.

However, the company has detailed its new Quick Charge 4.0 feature, which will first be supported by the Snapdragon 835. Quick Charge 4.0 improves on its predecessors by allowing devices to charge faster and more efficiently. The company suggests that a five-minute charge will be enough to give users 4-5 hours of life and that a typical device's battery could charge up to 50% in 15 minutes.

Real-time thermal management will improve safety, and both voltage and current can be monitored and regulated throughout the charging process to avoid overcharging.

Compared to Quick Charge 3.0, Qualcomm projects 20% faster charging and 30% higher efficiency. Moreover, the standard will be fully compliant with the USB Power Delivery standard and the USB Type-C specification, which should improve interoperability between the devices and chargers shipped by various companies.

In a related development, Qualcomm has also announced the launch of a $15,000 (approximately Rs. 10,19,635) bug bounty reward program under which security researchers, also known as white hat hackers, will be invited to test the company's SoCs, LTE modems and other products. The reward will be $15,000 per major vulnerability discovered and reported. Initially, the program will be open only to 40 or so known researchers who Qualcomm has worked with before.

Source: Qualcomm Snapdragon Blog

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Qualcomm launches IoT-specific Snapdragon 600E and 410E Processors

Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 600E and Snapdragon 410E processors for embedded computing and Internet of Things (IoT) related applications. The company says the new processors can be utilised in a number of devices including digital signage, set-top boxes, medical imaging, point of sale systems, industrial robotics, and other IoT-related applications.

Qualcomm confirms that the Snapdragon 600E and 410E will be made available globally by third party distributors, initially through Arrow Electronics. Both the new Snapdragon 600E and 410E processors have been built from the foundation of the Snapdragon 600 and 410 processors. The company believes that being the first Snapdragon processors that will be available by distributors will make them "accessible in a variety of quantities to manufacturers of all sizes for embedded computing and IoT products."

As for specifications, the Snapdragon 600E features a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Krait 300 coupled with Qualcomm Adreno 320 GPU and Qualcomm Hexagon DSP which is said to be the "ideal processor" for advanced systems with 3D graphics. It supports integrated Bluetooth 4.0/LE (and 3.x), Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, and GPS. It also supports expandable storage depending on a variety of use cases such as SATA, SD3.0, DDR memory, and eMMC storage among others.

The Snapdragon 410E features a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU coupled with an Adreno 306 GPU and Hexagon DSP. It supports Bluetooth 4.1/LE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and GPS.

"Snapdragon is a powerful and versatile processor with many potential applications in a wide variety of IoT applications and we can now offer this technology to a much wider range of customers with the additional benefit of long-term support and availability. The Snapdragon 600E and 410E bring together some of our best connectivity and compute technologies to meet the needs for a large range of embedded and IoT applications," Raj Talluri, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies said.

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