Qualcomm Inc. on Thursday plans to announce a cellular chip that can transmit a billion bits of data a second, hoping to bring mobile users speed comparable to today’s most advanced wired services.
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X16 LTE modem is the first to deliver fiber-like LTE Category 16 download speeds of up to 1Gbps, speeds which, in theory, would allow you to download a 4K film in around 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, the Snapdragon Wear system-on-a-chip (SoC) and Platform is an all-in-one chip for wearables.
Low-priced smartphones could be packed with premium features thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 425, 435 and 625 mobile chips. There’s also tools to connect to sensors as well as quick charging technology. LTE Advanced Pro, beginning with 3GPP Release 13, marks an important next phase for 4G that will expand the technology into new applications and usage models, establishing the foundation for unified and more capable connectivity platforms into the next decade. By using carrier aggregation and 4×4 MIMO, the Snapdragon X16 LTE modem can receive 10 unique streams of data using only three 20 MHz carriers. The Snapdragon X16 LTE modem pairs with Qualcomm Technologies’ Qualcomm® RF360™ QET4100 Envelope Tracker to provide a major advancement in LTE power efficiency with the world’s first announced 40MHz envelope tracking solution for LTE FDD and LTE TDD.
The Snapdragon 435 has an X8 LTE modem and multimedia and visual features, supporting 1080p high-definition video at 60 frames per second. That product could be launched with the Wear 2100 this year. The 625 supports PC-class graphics with the Qualcomm Adreno 506 graphics processing unit (GPU), which is created to support the Vulkan API.
Called Snapdragon Wear 2100, it is 30% smaller than the existing Snapdragon 400, consumes 25% less power, has an integrated sensor hub, and options on an LTE modem with satellite navigation, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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“LG and Qualcomm Technologies have led the wearable technology space with close collaboration over the last two years and have launched multiple smartwatches and kid watches”. Now the Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC will enable wearables with sleeker designs, longer battery life, smart sensing, and always-connected experiences.
