Other than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 cell SoC and the Snapdragon X Elite chipset for laptops, at its Snapdragon Summit in the present day in Hawaii Qualcomm additionally took the wraps off its newest audio chips that may energy future TWS earbuds, headphones, and audio system.
Meet the Qualcomm Snapdragon S7 and S7 Professional Gen 1 Sound platforms with Bluetooth 5.4. The S7 Professional brings micro-power Wi-Fi (able to speeds as much as 29 Mbps) to your subsequent pair of earbuds with the intention to lengthen their vary “far past what is feasible in the present day utilizing solely Bluetooth”, Qualcomm says, with seamless transitioning between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
The corporate guarantees you can stroll round your house, any constructing or campus, whereas nonetheless listening to music and making calls, the place mere Bluetooth performance would have reached its limits.
The S7 and S7 Professional ship “six instances the compute energy, nearly 100 instances the AI energy” (because of the usage of a devoted Micro NPU AI engine) of “earlier era platforms”, aka the S5 Gen 2. Hopefully you were not banking on with the ability to escape AI in future headphones and audio system and earbuds.
These two audio platforms “make the most of and unparalleled degree of on-device AI”, in line with Qualcomm, which is able to assist “listening to enhancement applied sciences ship a extra seamless consumer expertise by understanding and adapting to consumer wants all through the day”.
Translation: automated transitioning between ANC modes “based mostly on rapid setting”, which is one thing that already exists in earbuds, so hopefully this simply means it is higher. Talking of ANC, it is “4th Gen” now, and needs to be higher than ever.
There are “a number of DSP cores” on board and a sensor hub, supported by a 300% enhance in reminiscence – once more in comparison with the S5 Gen 2. The S7 Professional additionally has assist for 192kHz multi-channel lossless music streaming and enhanced multi-channel spatial audio for gaming.