History
- In Q4 2008, the first chipsets in the Snapdragon family, the QSD8650 and the QSD8250, were made available.
- On 1 June 2010, Qualcomm announced sampling of the MSM8x60 series of Snapdragon SoCs.
- On 17 November 2010, Qualcomm announces the roadmap for Next-Gen Snapdragon SoC development, including the MSM8960, citing future improvements in CPU and GPU performance and lower power consumption.
- On 5 January 2011, a version of Microsoft Windows 7 compiled for ARM is shown running on the Snapdragon SoC at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.
- On 3 August 2011, Qualcomm announced a plan to use simple names (S1, S2, S3 and S4) for Snapdragon processors so that the public can better understand the products. The higher the number, the newer generation of SoC it is.
- On 7 January 2013, Qualcomm announced new names and tiers for the 2013 line of Snapdragon SoC's, Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800. The model tiers can easiest be described as equivalent to the Play (200), Plus (400), Pro (600) and Prime (800) tiers of the S4 generation of SoCs.
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