Qualcomm has revolutionized the drones and now aims to be the go-to chipmaker for this technology with its latest Snapdragon Flight. If Qualcomm steps in and offers powerful hardware for an affordable price, it could make a lot of money and fill in the intermediary gap between expensive and cheap drones. Qualcomm is hoping that it has plenty of takers, as it is promising that Snapdragon Flight will not only result in smaller and lighter drones, but also drones that are easier to fly.
Qualcomm Technologies also announced that Yuneec, a leading developer of consumer and professional drones with a long history of innovation in electric aviation, will be one of the first companies to use the Snapdragon Flight.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (Qualcomm), is engaged in design, manufacture, have manufactured on its behalf and market digital communications products and services based on code division multiple access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDMA) and other technologies. The SoC, a tiny piece of silicon packed with all the brains and guts of what a modern smartphone can do, is the main reason behind the popularity of several modern mobile phones. These features only indicate that Qualcomm aims to be the default central nervous system for the future drones.
It’s a wonder that all this is available in one small chip but there’s more to it as the chip also meant to support 4k video.
According to Qualcomm’s press release, the company has introduced what it likes to call Snapdragon Flight.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight platform will be targeted at high-end commercial and consumer drones as well as other robotic applications.
Qualcomm unveils its Snapdragon Flight chip in a bid to lead drone revolution.
The basic challenge that drone manufacturers face today is that all the parts – cameras, navigation, wireless – come from different vendors making manufacturing more complex.
The semiconductor company even gained its first customer, a Chinese drone manufacturer Yuneec, which intends to launch a drone, based on this board, by 2016.
By putting all of these features on a single chip, Qualcomm reduced the overall size of the processing board. Zacks raised shares of QUALCOMM from a “sell” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $75.00 target price for the company in a report on Tuesday, June 23rd. Snapdragon Flight is the result of research the company had been performing using its Snapdragon mobile processors in robotics. The wireless technology company reported $0.99 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.95 by $0.04.