Mengenal singkat processor snapdragon

Telinga kita saat ini sudah tidak asing lagi dengan istilah SNAPDRAGON, yaitu prosesor Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ yang sekarang Anda dapat beralih dari satu aplikasi ke aplikasi lain tanpa hambatan, menikmati laju pengunduhan yang sangat cepat, memainkan game terlaris dan mungkin saja Anda sudah kehabisan tenaga sebelum daya baterai Anda habis. Itulah yang terjadi bila perangkat Anda memiliki jantung seekor naga.

• In Q4 2008, the first chipsets in the Snapdragon family, the QSD8650 and the QSD8250, were made available.
• On 1 June 2010, Qualcomm announced sampling of the MSM8x60 series of Snapdragon SoCs.
• On 17 November 2010, Qualcomm announces the roadmap for Next-Gen Snapdragon SoC development, including the MSM8960, citing future improvements in CPU and GPU performance and lower power consumption.
• On 5 January 2011, A version of Microsoft Windows compiled for ARM is shown running on the Snapdragon SoC at CES 2011.
• On 3 August 2011, Qualcomm announced a plan to use simple names (S1, S2, S3 and S4) for Snapdragon processors so that the public can better understand the products. The higher the number, the newer generation of SoC it is.
• On 7 January 2013, Qualcomm announced new names and tiers for the 2013 line of Snapdragon SoC's, Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800. The model tiers can easiest be described as equivalent to the Play (200), Plus (400), Pro (600) and Prime (800) tiers of the S4 generation of SoCs.

Contoh beberapa ponsel/tab yang menggunakan snapdragon S4 :

Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (3G/4G version),^[46] BlackBerry Z10,^[47] HTC Windows Phone 8X(US/LTE Version), HTC Evo 4G LTE,^[48] HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE,^[49] HTC One XL,^[39] HTC One X (North America),^[50] Motorola Atrix HD,^[51] Nokia Lumia 820,^[52] Nokia Lumia 920,^[53] Panasonic Eluga Power,^[54] Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 MDP/S,^[55] Samsung Galaxy S III (select versions),^[54] Samsung ATIV S, Sharp Aquos Phone sv (SH-10D),^[54] Sharp Aquos Phone Zeta (SH-09D),^[54] Sony Xperia GX,^[56] Sony Xperia SX,^[57] Sony Xperia V,Toshiba Regza Phone (T-02D),^[54] ZTE V96,^[58] Motorola Droid RAZR M, Motorola Droid RAZR HD, Motorola RAZR HD, Motorola RAZR MAXX HD, LG Spectrum II 4G (VS930), LG Escape (P870), LG Optimus LTE II, LG Motion 4G , ZTE Avid 4G , LG MS870 , LG Optimus F7

Sumber : wikipedia.org , www.qualcomm.co.id