Qualcomm Snapdragon- Here is the Actual meaning of it

Qualcomm Snapdragon- Here is the Actual meaning of it

en.wikipedia.org

Snapdragon Qualcomm is a suite of (SoC) System on a Chip

According to a Qualcomm spokesperson, it was named Snapdragon, because "Snap and Dragon” sounded fast and fierce.

anandtech.com

semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for mobile smartphone devices. The Snapdragon central processing unit that is (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, & a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a wireless modem, and other software & hardware to support a smartphone's global positioning system i.e. (GPS), camera, gesture recognition and video.

extremetech.com

Snapdragon semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android and Windows Phone devices. They are also used for netbooks, wearable devices and other devices. Very  first Snapdragon product to be made available to consumer device manufacturers was the QSD8250, which was released in November 2007. This included the first 1 GHz processor for mobile phones.

notebookcheck.net

At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Qualcomm introduced the first of the Snapdragon 800 series and renamed prior models as the 200s, 400s and 600 series. Several new iterations have been introduced since, such as the Snapdragon 805, 810, 615 and 410. Qualcomm re-branded its modem products under the Snapdragon name in December 2014.

fortune.com

Most smartphones at the time were using 500 MHz processors. The first generation of Snapdragon products supported a 720p resolution, 3D graphics and a 12-megapixel camera. By November 2008,15 Device manufacturers decided to embed Snapdragon Semiconductors in their consumer electronics products.

fonearena.com

Benchmark tests of the Snapdragon 800's processor by PC Magazine found that its processing power was comparable to similar products from Nvidia. And the same Snapdragon 805 found that the Adreno 420 GPU resulted in a 40 percent improvement in graphics processing over the Adreno 330 in the Snapdragon 800, though there were only little differences in processor benchmarks.