Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 710 mobile platform, designed to push high-tier smartphones into the world of artificial intelligence (AI).
The US chipmaker said on Thursday that the Snapdragon 710 “is designed with highly efficient architectures for artificial intelligence, featuring a multi-core AI Engine and neural network processing capabilities.”
The platform is the first in Qualcomm’s new 700-tier portfolio. The tech giant hopes that the upcoming range of products in the line will bring “select premium-tier features to a broader audience,” as well as provide consumers with more than we currently expect from high-end mobile devices.
A multi-core AI Engine is one of the key improvements Qualcomm has made. According to the company, the Snapdragon 710 platform is able to deliver up to two times the performance of the Snapdragon 660 when running AI applications, including AI- and neural networking-backed photography and voice systems.
Qualcomm’s engineers have been working on ways to utilize artificial intelligence and neural networking in personalized applications. This has moved the company towards the direction of contextually-aware image and video capture — such as with the introduction of deep portrait modes and depth sensing.
In addition, the new Qualcomm SpectraTM 250 ISP has been designed for improved low-light photography and video, image stabilization, and rapid autofocus capabilities. The Snapdragon 710 platform also supports 4K HDR playback for viewing HDR videos and apps, which has only been seen so far in the 800-tier. The new mobile platform supports the Snapdragon X15 LTE modem for up to 800Mbps download speeds, as well as 4×4 MIMO technology – on up to 2 aggregated carriers — for faster speeds in areas with poor reception.
New 710 architectures include the Qualcomm HexagonTM DSP, Qualcomm AdrenoTM Visual Processing subsystem, and Qualcomm KryoTM CPU.
According to Qualcomm, the new hardware provides up to a 40 percent reduction in power consumption for gaming and HDR video playback, as well as a reduction of up to 20 percent when streaming video in comparison to Snapdragon 660.
In addition, when compared to the same legacy platform, the Kryo 360 architecture — built on ARM CortexTM — offers an improvement in performance of up to 20 percent, 25 percent faster web browsing, and app launch times which are up to 15 percent quicker.
When combined with Quick ChargeTM 4+ technology, Qualcomm says users can charge their batteries up to 50 percent within 15 minutes.
The Snapdragon 710 mobile platform is now available to vendors and is expected to be found in consumer devices in Q2 2018.
Source: Zdnet.com
