On June 28, 2017, Shanghai, China - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced at the 2017 World Mobile Congress Shanghai (MWC Shanghai 2017) that its subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Launches Qualcomm, a New Product of Snapdragon 400 Series Mobile Platform ® snapdragon ™ 450 mobile platform. Snapdragon 450 is the first product at this level to use the 14nm FinFET process, which will meet the needs of mid tier smart phones and tablets. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 435 mobile platform, this platform aims to achieve significant improvements in battery life, graphics and computing performance, imaging and LTE connectivity.
Compared with the previous generation of products, Snapdragon 450 mobile platform focuses on improving the following four key features:
Enhanced CPU and GPU: The higher performance eight core ARM Cortex A53 CPU can improve the computing performance by 25%. In addition, compared with Snapdragon 435, the integrated Qualcomm ® Adreno ™ The 506 GPU can achieve 25% graphics performance improvement.
Battery life: Thanks to the improvement of power management, compared with the Snapdragon 435, its use time can be extended by up to 4 hours, and the power consumption can be reduced by up to 30% in the game, helping consumers to stay connected and work efficiently for a longer time. Snapdragon 450 also integrates Qualcomm ® Quick Charge ™ 3.0. It takes about 35 minutes to charge an ordinary mobile phone from zero to 80%.
Camera and multimedia: Snapdragon 450 supports real-time background virtualization for the first time in the 400 series. It has also made a number of improvements based on previous generation products, including support for enhanced 13+13 million pixel dual cameras, or up to 21 million pixel single cameras; Hybrid autofocus; And 1080p video capture and playback up to 60fps, which can realize slow motion capture. Snapdragon 450 also supports 1920x1200 full HD display and Qualcomm ® Hexagon ™ DSP， Compared with the previous generation products, it can enable multimedia, cameras and sensors to process with stronger performance under lower power consumption.
Connection performance and USB connection: Users will enjoy the ultra fast LTE connection brought by the Snapdragon X9 LTE modem. The peak speeds of 300Mbps and 150Mbps are achieved in the downlink and uplink respectively through the 2x20 MHz carrier aggregation. Through the Snapdragon All Network Communication, multiple mobile network systems are supported. In addition, the 802.11ac of MU-MIMO is also supported. Snapdragon 450 also supports USB3.0, which is the first time to support high-speed USB data transmission in this layer.
Kedar Kondap, vice president of product management of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., said, "Our vision is to provide the most advanced mobile functions with the best value. Many of the changes we have made to the Snapdragon mobile platform recently are part of this vision, and the Snapdragon 450 mobile platform has also realized this vision again. With the Snapdragon 450, users will gain significantly improved performance, connectivity, battery life and image performance. "
So far, more than 1900 terminal designs using Snapdragon 400 series mobile platforms have been released or are under development. Snapdragon 450 is expected to start commercial sampling in the third quarter of 2017, and will be launched in consumer terminals at the end of this year.
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