There will be a 200, 400, 600, 700 and finally 800 seriesi n the future and the 600 is likely to  target a feature rich platform that can provide more technology to end users to last for a day. On top of the list Qualcomm remains with 652, 653 and 660 while the second tier inside of 600 line up with 625, 626, 630 and 636 is getting a new SoC.

The Snapdragon 600 series resulted i over 1350 designs - quite a popular platform at many markets. As you can imagine, the Snapdragon 632 outperforms the existing 630 and it focuses on efficient design, higher performance, better battery, advanced modem and AI capability. It is important to mention that 632 is pin compatible with 626, 625 and 450 processors and it is software compatible even with the Snapdragon 439 and 429. This will make it a much faster time to market for many OEMs that use these SoCs. Many additional chips including RF, PMIC, audio and more can also be used too.

Snapdragon 632 comes with a Snapdragon X9 LTE modem capable of 300 Mbps download and 150 Mbps upload. The modem supports 2x20MHz carrier aggregation, up to 64-QAM, Uplink data compression and up to 2x 75Mbps LTE streams.

The AP part has eight core Kryo 250 CPU that have made it to this tier too. You have four performance cores clocked at 1.8 GHz and four efficiency cores clocked at the same speed. You should get a performance increase of up to 40 percent compared to Snapdragon 626.

The new Adreno 506 GPU is up to 10 percent faster than the Snapdragon 626 solution and it supports OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan.

The Snapdragon 632 supports single 24-megapixel camera or two 13-megapixel ones including real time bokeh as well as wide angle photos. The platform supports cutting edge 3A algorithms including auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure. It also supports computational photography including machine learning and post processing.  

AI, Kryo and X9 LTE modem

Of course, it supports fingerprint security as well as payment security and digital right management.

Since it is based on an advanced FinFET it delivers lower power that results in better battery life as well as more feature integration and thinner phones with larger batteries. Qualcomm internal testing claims that you can talk more than a day, play music for eight days, get a 10+ hours of gaming, six hours of video capture, 13+ hours of video playback or 10+ hours of video streaming.

There is dual sim dual VoLTE support included in the next generation dual sim solution. The new Snapdragon 632 as well as 439 and 429 support eMBMS for efficient delivery of broadcast and multicast services.

Now to the hot topic of 2018, the AI capabilities. The Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 support Qualcomm neural Processing SDK and Android Neural Network. When it comes to frameworks the platform supports Caffe/Caffe2, Google’s TensorFlow and mobile optimized TensorFlow Lite and ONNX. This translates to used cases around style transfers, assisted photography, text translation, people detection, face unlock, Bokeh for single camera, object detection, relightning, smart album or face attributes.

Commercial devices are expected in the second half of 2018.