Qualcomm simplifies naming of Snapdragon chipsets – Computer – News

Qualcomm will streamline its Snapdragon chips naming this year. The company’s chips will now have a single-digit product name, instead of the current three-digit system.

The chipmaker writes Among other things, “Snapdragon” will henceforth become a separate brand name separate from the Qualcomm brand. The company has already implemented this change; The word “Qualcomm” was already missing from the Snapdragon 888+ 5G. The company now asserts that this will continue with future products.

Currently, Snapdragon chipset product names consist of three digits, but in the future it will be reduced to a single digit and generation number, Qualcomm said. The company doesn’t provide exact examples of what it will call Snapdragon chips in the future, but the company is already doing something similar on some of its processors for PCs, such as Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2.

According to the company, this change in numbering will be implemented with the introduction of the following Main The smartphone chip is in the 8 series. This soc is expected to be presented next week. There will be a Snapdragon Tech Summit soon. This presentation will be on December 1st at 0.00 hours Dutch time Broadcast on YouTube.

In the future, the company will only use gold-colored “product badges” for its high-end chipsets, and the company will stop explicitly mentioning 5G in its product names. Supporting this connection will be “for granted” in the future. The ‘Fireball’, which the company uses as its Snapdragon logo, will also be used more prominently in the future.