Following up the announ
cement of details on the Snapdragon 821,Qualcomm is al
so announcing a committed standalone VR HMD running Snapdragon 820 as a refer
ence design which was designed in partnership with Goertek as the ODM.
The VR820 reference design has a 1440
x1440 AMOLED display per
eye at 70 Hz and can display 4K at 70 FPS with HEVC. This
reference design uses Android and supports the 6DoF Tango APIs, so head tracking
is seamless. Motion to photon latency
is 18 ms which is probably at least comparable to
the Gear VR. The VR820 reference design will be available Q4 2016 and commercial devices bas
ed on this reference design will be available next year.
For wearables,
or the major announcement that Qualcomm has of note is a
nnouncing their design wins in the Fossil Q Wander and Q Marshall which
exhaust Snapdragon Wear 2100 which has quad core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7s
.
Finally,the QCA9379 is a combo chip with dual stream WiFi 802.11a
c, Bluetooth 4.2, and MU-MIMO for WiFi. There’s a
lso support for WiFi and Bluetooth coexistence and integrates power ampl
ifiers and LNAs onto a single chip to reduce cost. There’s als
o set top box reference design that uses Snapdragon 820 which also has dua
l stream 802.11ac. Both are sampling now with commercial device availability expected by the e
nd of this year.[http://dynamic1.anandtech.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=24&cb=&n=a1f2f01f]
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