SVP Alex Katouzian shows the chip

Qualcomm has just wrapped up the second Snapdragon technology event keynote and a small part of the keynote was the three-year effort called the Snapdragon 845.

Alex Katouzian a senior vice president and general manager of mobile for Qualcomm Technologies has took the stage and announced the Snapdragon 845. He had a sample in his hand and didn’t really went into any details about the chip. Katouzian did mention that a SoC is a three-year journey where the infrastructure partners play a big role. Of course, we want to know a bit more about CPU, GPU, DSP, Camera, AI and transistor count / battery life, but we were assured that we will be able to learn some of it tomorrow.

He did mention that they had six pillars when they designed the 845 SoC. They took a lot of details and attention to the camera and share performance, AI performance that can touch every app on the phone. VR, multimedia, and overall performance play a big role in the whole 845 SoC design as well as the security and connectivity. These six pillars play a big role in the shaping up on the Snapdragon 845.

The chip is manufactured by Samsung, obviously their 2nd generation 10nm design, but this is also something that we will have to wait for tomorrow. The main announcer and the excellent host Cristiano Amon an executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies and president of QCT had Samsung fab guy on the stage. Dr. ES Joung the President and General manager of Foundry business at Samsung electronics took the stage which gave us a good indication who is behind the chip.

Stay tuned for more details tomorrow.