Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 aims to elevate the mobile experience

Qualcomm had announced the Snapdragon 710 platform built on the 10nm process last month in China. FoneArena got a chance to speak to Kedar Kondap, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies about the announcement.  The Snapdragon 710 platform is positioned between the flagship 800 series and the budget 600 series.  We are curious to hear about Qualcomm's idea behind the 710. The Snapdragon 710 boasts of  a 3rd gen Kyro CPU with up to 20% performance improvement, 2nd gen Spectra ISP for improved camera capabilities, 4K HDR playback support, X15 LTE modem for faster downloads with 4x4 MIMO. Qualcomm has always brought down features from higher premium tier chips to mid-tier and lower-tier chips. The 710 is no exception and shows Qualcomm's commitment to democratizing premium features over the course of time. The 710 offers a full AI ( Artificial Intelligence) experience with the combined hardware of the Kyro CPU, Adreno GPU and Hexagon DSP. There is also support for frameworks such as Google TensorFlow and Caffe 2 from Facebook.  The AI Engine will enable features like object detection, food tagging, Animoji, improved photography, face unlock and more. "Although we drive AI type use cases with the 710, we also care about end ...