Qualcomm Extends its Embedded Computing Portfolio and Brings its Premium Tier Processors for Cutting-Edge IoT Applications

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., introduced the Qualcomm® Snapdragontm 820E embedded platform and extended its embedded computing portfolio to support premium tier, cutting edge applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). The solution showcases how Qualcomm Technologies uses its mobile expertise in both computing and connectivity for commercial IoT products. The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform is designed to support connected computing, and powerful yet power-efficient multicore processing for computer vision, artificial intelligence and immersive multimedia ? all in one package for next generation of IoT applications such as virtual reality, digital signage, smart retail, robotics and more.

The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform is being made available globally by third party distributors, initially through Arrow Electronics, for 10 years from commercial sample (until 2025). With the new DragonBoardtm 820c development board offered by Arrow Electronics, end customers and ecosystem participants can begin their evaluation and invention with the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform. DragonBoard 820c, is a 96Boards compliant open hardware specification, making it a highly expandable starting point for invention. Device manufacturers, solution providers, and system integrators now have a rich set of options for speeding commercialization of products based on the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform through using a variety of off-the-shelf and custom modules, as well as the freedom for chip-on-board design for a cost-optimized approach unique to their requirements. The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform joins the Qualcomm® Snapdragontm 410E and 600E embedded platforms in a tiered offering designed to address the needs of highly diverse consumer, enterprise and industrial embedded device categories.

"We are excited to introduce the award-winning premium tier Snapdragon 820 platform series to our extended life embedded portfolio, helping innovators everywhere create exciting and innovative IoT products," said Jim Tran, senior vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies. "The Snapdragon 820E is a powerful and versatile embedded platform that is designed to support both complex connected computing and immersive visual graphics while providing the ultimate in performance and power efficiency that is ideal for small form factors and a wide variety of cutting-edge IoT applications."

"The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform will support an entirely new category of exciting IoT products and solutions," said David West, senior vice president of global marketing and engineering at Arrow Electronics. "Arrow looks forward to helping our customers fast-track their innovative and next-generation IoT products with the DragonBoard 820c development board, based on the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform."

The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform, featuring a 64-bit ARMv8 -compliant quad-core Qualcomm® Kryotm CPU, is an ideal processor for building advanced systems with multi-core performance and immersive 3D graphics, thanks to the Qualcomm® Adrenotm 530 GPU and Qualcomm® Hexagontm 680 DSP. The embedded platform also supports Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, six position location satellite systems and high quality multi-channel audio.

With its expertise in both connectivity and compute, Qualcomm Technologies is well positioned to help deliver the technologies needed in IoT, and has already brought other Snapdragon 820E embedded solutions to diverse products such as Allomind's immersive reality glasses for in-flight entertainment, RetailNext's Aurora v2 retail analytics sensor and Nanolumens' AWARE cloud-based platform for digital displays.  For more information visit the Snapdragon for embedded computing page.

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