May 27, 2018 at 10:45AM
On May 23, Bloomberg reported that wireless technology giant Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) intends to “unveil a dedicated chip to power stand-alone virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets” as early as next week.
The chip is expected to be called the Snapdragon XR1 and will apparently be a “system-on-a-chip with a main processing unit, a graphics processor, security functions and components to handle artificial intelligence tasks.”
“The product is designed to make it easier for hardware manufacturers to build headsets that are cheap, powerful and energy-efficient,” Bloomberg reports, noting that current stand-alone headsets typically employ repurposed smartphone processors. Read More