Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., introduced the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E embedded platform and extended its embedded computing portfolio to support premium tier, cutting-edge applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). The solution showcases how Qualcomm Technologies uses its mobile expertise in both computing and connectivity for commercial IoT products. The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform is designed to support connected computing, and powerful yet power-efficient multicore processing for computer vision, artificial intelligence and immersive multimedia – all in one package for next generation of IoT applications such as virtual reality, digital signage, smart retail, robotics and more.

The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform is being made available globally by third-party distributors, initially through Arrow Electronics, for 10 years from commercial sample (until 2025). With the new DragonBoard 820c development board offered by Arrow Electronics, end customers and ecosystem participants can begin their evaluation and invention with the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform. DragonBoard 820c, is a 96Boards compliant open hardware specification, making it a highly expandable starting point for invention. Device manufacturers, solution providers, and system integrators now have a rich set of options for speeding commercialization of products based on the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform through using a variety of off-the-shelf and custom modules, as well as the freedom for chip-on-board design for a cost-optimized approach unique to their requirements. The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform joins the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410E and 600E embedded platforms in a tiered offering designed to address the needs of highly diverse consumer, enterprise and industrial embedded device categories.

“The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform will support an entirely new category of exciting IoT products and solutions,” said David West, senior vice president of global marketing and engineering at Arrow Electronics. “Arrow looks forward to helping our customers fast-track their innovative and next-generation IoT products with the DragonBoard 820c development board, based on the Snapdragon 820E embedded platform.”

The Snapdragon 820E embedded platform, featuring a 64-bit ARMv8 -compliant quad-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU, is an ideal processor for building advanced systems with multi-core performance and immersive 3D graphics, thanks to the Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU and Qualcomm Hexagon 680 DSP. The embedded platform also supports Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, six position location satellite systems and high-quality multi-channel audio.

With its expertise in both connectivity and compute, Qualcomm Technologies is well positioned to help deliver the technologies needed in IoT, and has already brought other Snapdragon 820E embedded solutions to diverse 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.  For more information visit the Snapdragon for embedded computing page.