Qualcomm Teases VR Power in 'Next-Gen Snapdragon'

BARCELONA—The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is just starting to hitting the market, and Samsung and LG are using it in their new VR experiences. But Qualcomm EVP Cristiano Amon says the "next generation Snapdragon"—presumably next year'due south model—will amp up its VR power into "desktop-blazon scenarios."

Amon was responding to a question about HTC's Vive, which Valve's Chet Faliszek said yesterday requires too much calculating ability to be used with a mobile device.

"One of the bets we've made is in 4K display for mobile, with a high frame rate and a very large GPU investment where the GPU becomes more important than the CPU," Amon said. "We see no limitation to get the use cases you come across in desktop to a mobile device, and with the adjacent-generation Snapdragon you're going to see a lot of those devices become commercially available," he said.

For the Vive's true walk-around, manipulable VR, its headset needs to transmit Hard disk video at 90 frames per second and sync with low levels of latency just available through cabling to a PC, Faliszek said.

Qualcomm is working on overcoming that challenge, Qualcomm'due south CEO Steve Mollenkopf said. "The importance of timing audio and visual together is very high, but the SOC players [like Qualcomm] have an important advantage and then they have the power to take the CPU and GPU, and accept them combined together."

Qualcomm's new X16 modem volition enable gigabit LTE devices in the 2nd one-half of this year, Amon said, with gigabit wireless speeds becoming mainstream in 2022 as operators upgrade their networks. "The whole Internet is going wireless and you will need the fiber-like speeds into your smartphone," Amon said.

Qualcomm is also working on 802.11ad, a low-latency multi-gigabit wireless engineering science which could solve local wireless streaming problems to headsets, he said. "We think information technology'due south going to exist an exciting utilise example that we're going to be big players in."

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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