Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 unveiled, to be rolled out in Q1 2019

New Delhi: US-based chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the Snapdragon 675 system-on-chip (SoC) at the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday .

The Snapdragon 675 mobile platform is expected to be rolled out to consumer devices in the second quarter of 2019.

“The Snapdragon 675 offers outstanding gaming, a leap in artificial intelligence (AI) capability and a cutting-edge camera. Premium features in the Snapdragon 675 are enabled by the Qualcomm AI Engine, Qualcomm Spectra ISP, Qualcomm Kryo CPU and Qualcomm Adreno GPU,” the company said.

Qualcomm Technologies said that it is working with game developers to deliver next level gaming experiences to the 600 tier. A number of specific games and game engines have been optimized including Unity, Unreal, Messiah, and NeoX. Qualcomm Technologies also supports popular tools and APIs, including Vulkan, OpenGL 3.2, OpenCL, and Snapdragon profiler.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 is designed to enable smartphone users to capture images and videos in professional-grade quality during the day and night, in slow-motion and with the help of AI.

Snapdragon 675 supports a triple camera configuration in the front or back, supporting features such as telephoto, wide angle, and super-wide image capture, as well as enhanced portrait mode (Bokeh), 3D face unlock and ‘epic’ selfies. Additionally, Snapdragon 675 provides limitless slo-mo – capable of recording extended slo-mo video clips in HD, not limited to one second or shorter bursts.

Snapdragon 675 Mobile Platform with a multi-core AI Engine is engineered to deliver up to 50 percent overall improvements in AI applications, Qualcomm said.

Additional AI use cases supported on Snapdragon 675 include camera (scene and object detection, image style transfer, portrait relighting), security (face unlock, payment security), voice and translation. Global ISVs also support the platform including Megvii (Face++), NetEase, SenseTime, Thundersoft, and Trio.AI.

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