Almost exactly a year after the launch of the Snapdragon 845, Qualcomm took the wraps off of its next-generation mobile platform, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. The new chip puts an emphasis on A. I. performance, 5G, and computer vision, while naturally increasing performance and efficiency.
With improved performance, 5G support, and built-in artificial intelligence, the Snapdragon 855 will be the processor powering a majority of flagship Android smartphones next year. Qualcomm just announced the successor to the Snapdragon 845 (which is in most flagship 2018 phones) at its Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii.
The Snapdragon 855 is built to embrace a new wave of technologies expected to arise over the next few years — such as 5G, mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and more. Details are still scarce about exactly what the Snapdragon 855 will have to offer — we should learn a little more on December 5, when Qualcomm details the processor’s capabilities in full — but there is a good deal we can go on until then.
For starters, Qualcomm said the Snapdragon 855 is built to deliver more intuitive on-device artificial intelligence features. Instead of sending information up to the cloud all the time, A.
