Following on from the firm’s Snapdragon 620 A chip, these new versions brings with them of the benefits of the company’s Snapdragon 820 mobile chip, including the new 64-bit Kryo CPU, Adreno 530 GPU and LTE speeds of up to 600 Mbps.
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It’s Qualcomm’s turn in the Las Vegas spotlight at CES.
To prevent hacking, the Snapdragon 820A uses hypervisor technology, using virtual machines on the chipset isloated from other processes.
The 602A isn’t the only Snapdragon processor headed to your auto – Mollenkopf also revealed a specialized version of the 820.
Qualcomm says the 820A family will begin sampling in Q1 of 2016 and that it will be showing off “a number of concept vehicles and demonstrations” based on the chip in its CES booth.
Qualcomm is a major chip maker, and many smartphones use their processors. Qualcomm Technologies is also helping to lead the 3GPP in developing specifications for automotive V2X, for both LTE release 14 (LTE V2X) and 5G standards. The Snapdragon is also built with longevity in mind, as Mollenkopf promised the processors could be used for upwards of ten years at a time. The chip supports multiple displays (so it could drive the screen in your dash and an infotainment screen in the back seat at the same time); it also offers support for high-resolution 4K displays for when some company inevitably decides to cram a high-res, high-density screen into one of its cars. The company is going to start sending hardware samples to manufacturers in the first quarter which is why it’s a safe bet to assume that the Snapdragon 820A will not arrive in cars before the end of this year.
In what Duggal said was an advantage for Qualcomm’s customers, an LTE modem chip can be integrated into the Snapdragon 820A, providing onboard data for destination searches, traffic and other information useful to drivers. And with new flagship phones expected from Samsung, HTC, LG, and more later this year, I’m sure that we’ll see quite a few Snapdragon 820-equipped devices in 2016.
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Processors for cars and such don’t get updated as much as mobile processors. So that should definitely tell you how long it could take to see the Snapdragon 820A on the road.
