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Developed by Qualcomm, Snapdragon arrived in 2008, a year marked by the beginning of a new era in telephony and the formation of the category of smartphones. 6j641o
With low cost e that transform it was soon ed by tech giants. HTC e Huawei were the first to bet on the novelty.
They were right. Today he is one of the main chipsets market and is present in the most important smartphones and tablets, mainly with Android.
Over the years the Snapdragon followed all the advances in technology and also made it possible for these innovations to be introduced into cell phones, turning them into true pocket computers.
Such a story has to be told. let's go back where everything started and find out how you got here.
The beginning of everything 3s4s19
the year was 1985, telephony was in its infancy and technology advanced cautiously. Seven professionals from the technology industry had a bold goal: establish in the world "Quality Communications".
Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Harvey White used the expression in English, Quality Communications, to give rise to the name of one of the larger start-ups in the history of the industry: the Qualcomm.
That same year, the company already started its work with the CDMA, at the time used for the security of military communications.
In the next few years, the rapid advance was already remarkable. THE Qualcomm initiates studies for the use of satellites for communication and engages in the endeavor of successfully bringing the CDMA for telephony.
In partnership with Cellular PacTel, decide to demonstrate the new technology at 50 of the most influential leaders of the wireless industry.
The team had six months to prepare the historic call, presented by doctor Irwin M. Jacobs in San Diego, and was recognized by the gesture of one of the engineers, who took the thumbs up like approval.
In less than two years from that date, the company already had stocks on the stock exchange and continued to introduce innovations for mobile telephony, which now enabled access to internet by cell phone.
The division of chipsets was created in 1995, the same year in which the Qualcomm receives the collaboration of BC Tel Mobility of British Columbia to select the Northern Telecom (North) to provide network infrastructure equipment for the technologies CDMA e PCS.
In October, the Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd., in Hong Kong, launches the first service commercial CDMA, followed by South Korea e Peru the following year, reaching a million of s in the world.
It didn't take long for the industry to adopt the technology as pattern, which would evolve to the current 3G e 4G and would become a milestone in the history of the internet.
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In the 2000s, technology grew faster. O GPS was now integrated into CDMA and Qualcomm was committed to making the telephony experience more and more “mobile".
In 2003, the company announced its fourth generation of chipsets, with the evolution of technology CDMA, WCDMA. Two years later, one of its biggest launches arrives: the Scorpion.
With efficiency superior to other processors, the Scorpion already reached 1GHz processing speed without increasing the cost of the energy. It was the best option to integrate the devices with the new features that technology allowed.
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Despite having a flower name, the reasons for being called that way are nothing delicate. The inspiration comes from the words that compose it: snap (something like snap) and golden dragon (Dragon). According to the company, these words sound like “fast and fierce".
Leader in providing chipsets furniture in the world Qualcomm took advantage of the efficiency of Scorpion to introduce in the market, in 2007, the first chipsets Snapdragon: QSD8250 e QSD8650. Your settings were: single core u running at 528 MHz and rendering 2D via software.
Suring all the old ones limitations, the new chipset arrived as a SoC, or System-on-a-chip (system on a chip), an integrated circuit that controls and establishes a synchronize between device components.
O Snapdragon was the first to use Hexagon, DSP created by Qualcomm aiming at the balance between performance and efficiency of the energy and providing agility and better performance in connections, ideal for mobile devices.
The first model in the family S1 was used in devices HTC (on Tattoo and Wildfire models) and Huawei (U8110 and U8500).
In 2008, the company had its chipset No. primeiro device with system Android, HTC Dream, or T-Mobile G1, and was part of another historical fact.
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With investments in the development of mobile broadband, the Qualcomm announced in 2009 the first chipsets with integrated solution 3G of the world. If you can access internet from your cell phone with fast connection anywhere, thank the Qualcomm.
In his second model, still in the family S1, Snapdragon already had significant improvement, bringing a U faster and GPU Adreno, purchased from AMD and rebranded by Qualcomm, which decodes videos in High definition, has graphics 3D and is considered one of the most mobile GPU's Quick in the world.
The change was enough to win over industry giants like LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry, Motorola, in addition to the resistant HTC HD2 and of the whole line Windows Phone 7.
In 2010, the launch of the Snapdragon S2, the first chipset dual-core in the world, only increased the scope of the market.
The vast majority of smartphones now have the chipset da Qualcomm as the heart of the device. Lumia 900, from Nokia and Titan, from HTC with Windows Phone, Xperia Arc and a wide variety of Sony Ericsson models, in addition to products from LG, HTC e Samsung.
Riding the wave of growing demand for smartphones, the company sees its connection 3G sur the number of 1 billion s in April 2010 and leaves for its new model of Snapdragon.
Responding to a demand from the public, who wanted the power of a pc to load on bag, appears in 2011 the S3, the line with 2.5GHz of speed and reaches the astronomical number of 500 million of units produced.
HTC e Sony Ericsson remained firm in the partnership while other major launches completed the range of devices with the chipset. Among the devices that adhered to it were nothing less than the highlight of the Samsung for that year, the line Galaxy S IIAnd Touchpad da HP, which still used the efficient webOS system purchased from Palm.
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With Snapdragon S4, Qualcomm reached the lead in the mobile market, a wide variety of models from top brands stood out using the chipset.
from the lines Windows Phone 8, HTC One V/S/X and Sony (no longer called Sony Ericsson) to the classics RAZR, from Motorola and Nexus 4, from the partnership of LG and Google, were among them.
The number of tablets using the new chipset and, in the commercial line, the HTC J Butterfly.
The new line was divided into four levels, 200, 400, 600 e 800, to meet the variety of devices that spread across the market.
The company was not satisfied with the achievements so far and, in 2014, it pioneered several innovations: the first commercial smartphone to have a chipset with 3G / LTE integrated, first commercial mofem to reach speed of 450Mbps, first dual-SIM LTE world, incorporated its Snapdragon 400 in the first smartwatches with Android, from LG and Samsung, first automotive solution entertainment system with integrated Snapdragon.
The year 2015 was marked by the announcement of the Snapdragon 820, first to bear mofem LTE-A Cat 12, 600Mbps of speed, and by the mark of more than 750 models of mobile devices to use their chipsets, marks sured in the following year. Below you can see a list of all processor lines Snapdragon already launched by Qualcomm and the main devices:
- 2013: Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, 800 Chipsets (Motorola Moto E 2nd Gen, Alcatel OneTouch Pop Icon, ASUS Zenwatch 2, Samsung Ger S2, LG G Pad 7.0, Galaxy Tab S,Galaxy S4, HTC One, Amazon Fire TV, Xperia Z1, Nokia Lumia 930);
- 2014: Snapdragon 208, 210, 410, 602A, 610, 615, 801, 805, 808, 810 chipsets (Huawei Honor 4A, Microsoft Lumia 550, Xiaomi Redmi 2, Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5, Motorola Moto E and Moto G, Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, ASUS Zenfone Selfie, Motorola Moto X 2nd Gen, BlackBerry Priv, LG G10, LG G4, Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and Note 4, Microsoft Lumia 950 XL, ZTE Axon Pro, Huawei Nexus 6P);
- 2015: Snapdragon 212, 412, 415, 616, 617, 820 chipsets (Lenovo Yoga Tab 3, Alcatel OneTouch Pop Up, Xiaomi Redmi 3, HTC One A9, ASUS Zenfone 3 Deluxe, Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge);
- 2016: Snapdragon 425, 430, 435, 625, 626, 650(618), 652(620), 653, 821 chipsets (Xiaomi MiMax, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro, Sony Xperia X, Motorola Moto M);
- 2017: Snapdragon 205, 427, 450, 630, 636, 660, 835 chipsets (Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL, Nokia P1, Xiaomi Mi 6, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2).
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with impressive performance the new models are quickly outdated. In 2017, the company announces the integration of great innovations such as Augmented Reality, super fast recharge and 5G.
It is in this year that the company announces the first platform to be developed using the 10 nanometer FinFET, produced by Samsung. O Snapdragon 835, smaller in size than a one-dollar coin. cent US dollar, leaving room for other components.
This process gives the processor a performance up to 27% higher, which can consume energy up to 40% lower compared to the previous process, 14 nanometers.
Today those seven friends from california with an idea can be proud of reaching their goal: Quality Communication is a reality. With awards in the areas of technology, innovation and sustainability, the history of Qualcomm and Snapdragon is confused with technology in the world.
