In February at Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm announced a new tier of mobile chipsets, the Snapdragon 700 series. Yesterday, the firm announced the first chipset from the new lineup, the Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform.
About Snapdragon 710
The Snapdragon 710 includes a Snapdragon X15 4G LTE modem, which supports Category 15 speeds, or up to 800 Mbps. It supports 4×4 MIMO technology on up to two aggregated carriers. Comparatively, the Snapdragon 835 – last year’s flagship chipset – supported 1Gbps download speeds, although most carriers still don’t support anything close to this.
The Snapdragon 710’s fresh hardware will also provide OEMs with greater opportunities to implement Artificial Intelligence features. The Snapdragon 710 is built on a 10nm architecture. With that, Qualcomm is promising an overall 20 percent performance boost over the Snapdragon 660. The new chipset supports 4K HDR playback and uses an Adreno GPU that should cut down power consumption when gaming or watching the 4K HDR video by about 40 percent compared to the Snapdragon 660, according to Qualcomm. For image capture, the Spectra 250 ISP supports a 32-megapixel single-lens camera or two 20-megapixel lenses. It also has other features like active depth sensing, noise reduction, super-resolution, and image stabilization.
Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc said: “The Snapdragon 710 Mobile Platform is the first in the newly defined and highly significant 700-tier, offering technologies and features previously only available in our premium-tier mobile platforms, By incorporating key AI capabilities and performance advancements, the Snapdragon 710 is designed to transform our customers products into the ultimate personal assistant, enhancing critical everyday consumer experiences, such as high-end camera features that will benefit from on-device high-speed AI processing, without sacrificing battery life.”
The Snapdragon 710 is available to Qualcomm’s customers — phone makers and other device manufacturers — today, and consumer-ready products are expected in the second quarter of the year.