Today Qualcomm is asserting the brand new “Snapdragon Sound” branding initiative, basically an umbrella time period that covers the corporate’s numerous audio associated {hardware} and software program merchandise, promising improved end-to-end interoperability for a greater audio expertise.
Qualcomm’s initiative is somewhat imprecise, but it surely seems to be to be centered on a certification program that ensures accurately engineered software program stacks between a telephone’s audio subsystem and the listening system. Qualcomm right here notably appears to be like to give attention to wi-fi audio applied sciences with higher audio constancy, many of the applied sciences surrounding Qualcomm’s proprietary aptX codec and its derivatives. At least one concrete instance of an optimised Snapdragon Sound system is Bluetooth audio latency, which might attain right down to 89ms within the firm’s instance.
On the {hardware} aspect of issues, cellular platforms clearly cowl Qualcomm’s Aqstic audio codec chips in addition to speaker amplifiers, however extends the umbrella out to the corporate’s Bluetooth audio SoCs that are standard amongst wi-fi headphone producers.
It’s not clear if the end-to-end optimisations are solely restricted to Qualcomm {hardware} merchandise, or if third-party audio {hardware} options can even achieve good thing about the optimised audio stack.
Qualcomm states that the primary units supporting Snapdragon Sound optimisations are anticipated to be accessible later this yr.
