5G

5G is poised to make quite an impact on our world with its faster, fiber-like speeds, lower latency (near one millisecond), greater capacity to accommodate billions of IoT devices, as well as higher reliability and availability. Developers will be able to use 5G’s enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) for new immersive XR experiences, create applications with mission-critical control that can transform industries, and build massive IoT applications.

Helping to fuel the 5G push are powerful devices such as those powered by the Snapdragon® mobile platforms including the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform. We have a number of development tools listed below to help you with your projects, and some additional resources to get you up to speed on all that 5G offers


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Dreams of Sci-Fi: How the Ideas of Yesterday Become the Reality of Today
There are technologies we interact with every day that once were just figments of the imagination. In this blog post we look at devices that used to be dreams of science fiction writers, and now have...
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Voice Isolation Technology: A Feature That Speaks for Itself
Voice isolation technology can virtually eliminate background noises as users speak in real-time and with the utmost power efficiency. Find out how you can use it in your development with our Windows...
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Porting Your Apps to Windows on Snapdragon
Windows on Snapdragon compute platforms provide high performance, long battery life, and go-anywhere connectivity (e.g., 5G mmWave). This blog explores enhancements developers will find when...
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Can Vehicles Talk and Listen to One Another, and to the Infrastructure? Yes, with Support for Sessions in C-V2X.
Cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) is helping to enhance the safety of people using our roadways – and not just those in cars. In this blog post, see how C-V2X supports direct communication...
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Hexagon DSP SDK
The Hexagon SDK is designed to enable device manufacturers and independent software providers to optimize the features and performance of heterogeneous computing acceleration on the Hexagon DSP...
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Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Start prototyping your next round of innovations in AI, game play, image/video capture and Wi-Fi 7 on the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 mobile hardware development kit (HDK).
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Snapdragon® 8 Gen 1 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform, this single-board computer is now available to help you develop for mobile PCs, smartphones, tablets and IP cameras.
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Snapdragon 888 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
Single-board computer (SBC) built on the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform.
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Snapdragon XR2 HMD Reference Design
The Snapdragon XR2 reference design is engineered for software development and testing for deep interaction with AR and VR content.
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5G Future of Mobile Games eBook. We have teamed up with the IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards) to provide this report filled with details on how 5G is impacting mobile gaming. It also includes insight from industry influencers and game changers from companies like Supercell, Cotton, Activision, SuperEvilMegaCorp, and others that share their excitement of the 5G opportunity with mobile games.

Advanced 5G Technology Demonstrations. Check out this YouTube video playlist to see some cutting-edge advanced 5G technology demonstrations that will help realize the potential of 5G.

Intelligently connecting our world in the 5G era. See the wide expanse of use cases ─ narrow-band to high-performance IoT and everything in between, that 5G can enable, serving as the unifying connectivity framework for diverse applications in the 5G era.