A few days ago the Snapdragon Summit was held, in which numerous news related to Qualcomm's technological advances in hardware and software were announced, and the related advances that these news offer to its partners.
Qualcomm and Adobe unleash creativity on Snapdragon Mobile, Compute and XR
Adobe Fresco and Adobe Acrobat become native to Windows PCs with Snapdragon. Adobe 3D and Immersive tools will extend creators' creation and visualization capabilities through augmented reality and mixed reality using products that support Snapdragon Spaces.
Adobe wants to expand the availability of the Aero app to premium Snapdragon-powered smartphones globally. Building on the rich experiences already found with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom for Windows on Snapdragon devices, Adobe remains committed to bring the best of Creative Cloud natively to the Snapdragon platform. These include Adobe Fresco and Adobe Acrobat.
Powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, plus the dedicated Qualcomm AI Engine on Snapdragon computing platforms; you will experience better performance for creative workflows and tasks including super resolution, background removal, and color enhancement; plus content editing on the go.
New Development Kit for Qualcomm Innovators
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Qualcomm Innovator Development Kit. Such a kit allows developers to work with various software solutions and increase customization. The first phase includes a hardware development kit based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform with software tools and support for a new developer community. This Qualcomm Innovators will be available first for certain universities and research institutions to develop its machine learning applications on the device and will expand to other developer segments in the future.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Finally, the latest mobile platform in the Qualcomm range, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, has been introduced. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform will define a new standard for connected computing, intelligently designed with innovative AI across the board. This new mobile platform will be adopted by OEMs and global brands with the first commercial devices expected to arrive by the end of 2022.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Key Experience Pillars:
- Snapdragon Smart: Powered by the company's fastest and most advanced Qualcomm AI engine, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 delivers innovative AI built throughout the system. Powered by an upgraded Qualcomm Hexagon processor. You will experience faster natural language processing with multilingual translation and advanced AI camera features. The Hexagon processor features new architecture enhancements, including micro tile inference and a larger tensor accelerator for up to 4,35 times higher AI performance. It is also the first Snapdragon mobile platform to support INT4 with a 60% performance-per-watt improvement for sustained AI inference. Qualcomm Sensing Hub now incorporates dual AI processors, and supports intuitive experiences that enable custom wake words.
- Snapdragon Sight: This platform defines a new era of professional-quality camera experiences with the first cognitive ISP. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will automatically upgrade
photos and videos in real time with semantic segmentation, using an AI neural network
so that the camera is contextually aware of faces, facial features, hair, clothing
skies and more Thus, it optimizes the elements individually so that each detail receives a personalized image adjustment of the image. - Snapdragon Elite Gaming: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 debuts the new features of Snapdragon Elite Gaming. This includes real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing for mobile games. The improved Qualcomm Adreno GPU offers up to 25% faster performance, while the Qualcomm Kryo CPU enables up to 40% more power efficiency, for longer battery life.
- Snapdragon Connect: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will feature 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Powered by the Snapdragon X70 5G Modem-RF system with Qualcomm 5G AI processor, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 harnesses the power of AI for faster 5G upload and download speeds, coverage, latency, and power efficiency. It will be compatible with 5G+5G/4G Dual-SIM Dual-Active, and will allow the use of two 5G SIMs at the same time. It also has the Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 connection system, which offers the Wi-Fi 7 lowest latency and dual Bluetooth® connectivity for sustained immersion.
- snapdragon sound: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 supports Snapdragon Sound technology. Its spatial audio with dynamic head tracking will enable complete surround sound immersion and support for lossless 48kHz music streaming.
