Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E embedded platform for IoT, robotics announced


Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform for IoT showcases Qualcomm’s mobile expertise in both computing and connectivity for commercial IoT products. It is designed to support connected computing, and powerful yet power-efficient multicore processing for computer vision, artificial intelligence, and immersive multimedia.

Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform is being made available globally by third-party distributors, initially through Arrow Electronics until 2025. The DragonBoard 820c development board offers end customer and participants of the ecosystem can begin their evaluation and invention with the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform.

The DragonBoard 820c is a 96Boards compliant open hardware specification making it a highly expandable starting point for the invention. With the new Snapdragon 820E embedded platform, device manufacturers, solution providers, and system integrators have a rich set of options for the speeding commercialization of products.

Like the original Snapdragon 820, the 820E embedded platform features a 64-bit ARMv8 2.15GHz quad-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU, Adreno 530 GPU, and Qualcomm Hexagon 680 DSP. The embedded platform also supports Bluetooth 4.2, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, six position location satellite systems, and high-quality multi-channel audio. Supports eMMC 5.1, UFC 2.0, USB Type-3.0, up to 28 MP camera Image Sensor Processor with 2x Image Sensor Processor (ISP), and 4K recording.

The Snapdragon 820E embedded solutions will diversify products such as Allomind’s immersive reality glasses for in-flight entertainment, RetailNext’s Aurora v2 retail analytics sensor and Nanolumens’ AWARE cloud-based platform for digital displays.

Jim Tran, senior vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies said:

We are excited to introduce the award-winning premium tier Snapdragon 820 platform series to our extended life embedded portfolio, helping innovators everywhere create exciting and innovative IoT products. The Snapdragon 820E is a powerful and versatile embedded platform that is designed to support both complex connected computing and immersive visual graphics while providing the ultimate in performance and power efficiency that is ideal for small form factors and a wide variety of cutting-edge IoT applications.

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