Qualcomm Snapdragon brand has been established for 12 years: empowering more than 1.9 billion smartphones!

According to news on March 18, at today’s Snapdragon flagship new product launch conference, Qualcomm stated that it has been exactly 12 years since the establishment of the Snapdragon brand, and the number of smartphones powered by Snapdragon in the world has reached 1.9 billion.

Qualcomm’s advantages in technology and experience are like an insurmountable gap. It divides the Android mobile platform into two types, one is called Snapdragon and the other is called other.

According to data, the Snapdragon platform will account for 73% of high-end mobile phones shipped globally in 2023, and 83% of flagship mobile phones. It can be said that Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, It has almost become a standard feature for Android flagship phones.

It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm’s Xiaoyou Club has been established for three years and has 14 million fans.

In 2012, Qualcomm released the S4 series of processors, which included Qualcomm’s first quad-core processor - APQ8064. In the same year, the Chinese name "Snapdragon" was officially Birth.

Starting in 2013, Qualcomm launched a new processor naming method of "Snapdragon Digital" and released a new generation of flagship Snapdragon 800 processor.

In April 2014, Qualcomm released the later "famous" Snapdragon 810 "Fire Dragon" processor, which was mainly stimulated by Apple's release of a new 64-bit processor-A7 the previous year.

The Snapdragon 820, launched in November 2015, uses the self-developed Kryo architecture. Because the power consumption was still high despite the incomplete cooling system of mobile phones at the time, it was also called the "second generation Fire Dragon".

Also starting from Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm expanded Snapdragon’s positioning into a “mobile platform” and began its attempts at heterogeneous computing platforms.

In 2017, Qualcomm launched the first-generation Snapdragon 835, which broke the energy efficiency record of the flagship SoC and made the overall battery life of the Android flagship surpass the iPhone for the first time.

There are also flagship processors such as Snapdragon 845, Snapdragon 855, Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 888, Snapdragon 8 Gen1, Snapdragon 8, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 and the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen3. and many other positioned processors.

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