What is Qualcomm Snapdragon and Use in Phones
Qualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm spokesperson states Snapdragon as SNAP indicates FAST and DRAGON indicates FIERCE. Snapdragon is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for mobile devices. The Snapdragon central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instructions set, and a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a graphic processing unit (GPU) a wireless modem, and other software and hardware to support a smartphone’s global positioning system (GPS), camera, gesture recognition and video. Snapdragon semiconductor are embedded in devices of various systems, including Andriod and Windows Phone devices. They are also used for netbooks, in cars, wearable devices and other devices. History The first Snapdragon product to be made available to customer device manufacturers was the QSD8250, which was released in November 2007. It included the first 1 Ghz processor for mobile phones. Qualcomm introduced its “...