The world leader in designing chipsets….QUALCOMM which has more than 80 percent share of designing chips of all the electronic devices like smart phones, tablet pc’s etc…. has designed a processor which is perfect for a smart phone way in the past called the SNAPDRAGON PROCESSOR.

It has later released a series of processors named SNAPDRAGON S1, S2 and S3….now it is yet to release SNAPDRAGON S4…

Snapdragon s1

Talk, text and watch videos without interruption. Snapdragon S1 mobile processors deliver superior performance when you need it, with better battery life, always.

Snapdragon S2

Do more without draining your battery. Snapdragon S2 mobile processors deliver split-second connectivity to take multimedia and social networking to the next level.

Snapdragon s3

Now, your mobile device can keep up with you. Snapdragon S3 mobile processors deliver fast, seamless performance for multitaskers that want to do it all on their phone or tablet, without stopping to recharge.

Coming Soon : Snapdragon S4

Snapdragon S4 Processors will take performance to a whole new level. Featuring single, dual and quad CPUs, dual core GPUs, best-in-class multi-media capabilities, the industry’s only 4G/LTE multimode modem technology intelligently integrated into a single system on chip.

About Snapdragon

Snapdragon is a family of mobile system on chips by Qualcomm. Qualcomm considers Snapdragon a “platform” for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices.

The original Snapdragon CPU, dubbed Scorpion, is Qualcomm’s own design. It has many features similar to those of the ARM Cortex-A8 core and it is based on the ARM v7 instruction set, but theoretically has much higher performance for multimedia-related SIMD operations. The successor to Scorpion, found in S4 Snapdragon SoCs is named Krait and has many similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and is also based on the ARMv7 instruction set.

All Snapdragon processors contain the circuitry to decode high-definition video (HD) resolution at 720p or 1080p depending on the Snapdragon chipset. Adreno, the company’s proprietary GPU technology, integrated into Snapdragon chipsets (and certain other Qualcomm chipsets) is Qualcomm’s own design, using assets the company acquired from AMD.

Snapdragon chipsets, as of 2011, include a CPU “Krait” (with speeds up to 2.5 GHz), GPU “Adreno 225”, 2G/3G/4G modem, and severalHexagon DSP coprocessors.

Smart phones and Tablets which use Snapdragon

Samsung Galaxy Note

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

HTC Amaze 4G

HTC Sensation  4G

HTC EVO 3D

Nokia Lumia 710

Blackberry® Torch 9850

Sony Ericsson Xperi  PLAY

and more than 800 phones have this processors in it….

 

courtesy:qualcomm.com. wikipedia

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Mahesh ( MGIT ECE 4th year )