Qualcomm Unveils Powerful New Snapdragon SoC Chips

Qualcomm on Wednesday announced the Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform, a System on a Chip built for immersive multimedia experiences including extended reality (XR), on-device artificial intelligence and high-speed connectivity. The SoC will power next-generation Android flagship smartphones and Windows 10 notebooks based on ARM architecture. Xiaomi reportedly will use it in its forthcoming Mi 7 flagship, to be released next year. The SoC incorporates Qualcomm's Spectra 280 image signal processor (ISP), its Adreno 630 visual processing subsystem, and the company's secure processing unit (SPU), which enables improved biometrics security and user or application data key management. The 845 supports Google's TensorFlow and Tensorflow Lite, and Facebook's Caffe/Caffe2 frameworks, as well as the new Open Neural Network Exchange.