Such is the success of what we as users knew until now as processors Snapdragon, and above all to the is the capacity of the same that from the own Qualcomm They have just announced that from now on they will stop referring to them as processors to go on to refer to them as platform.
The idea of the leaders of Qualcomm that underlies this change of name without much news is that of give your product greater visibility. Basically and despite the fact that until now we used the word processor to refer to the 'brain' of an electronic device for the company, it does not determine exactly what its Snapdragon offers since many users can confuse it with a CPU, a piece of silicon, one more component .
Only high-end devices will be able to say that they use the Snapdragon platform.
Personally, it seems totally absurd to me, although, although using the word processor is correct, it is also true that many users can be wrong in the definition and scope of it. Because of this, we must now go on to call the Snapdragon platforms, a word that defines much better, according to Qualcomm, that its product encompasses hardware, software and services.
Another point to take into account, or at least so they have officially communicated it, is that for the next generation there will also be changes in terms of nomenclature as only high-end mobiles will be equipped with Snapdragon platforms since for terminals using the processors of the 200 series will use the Qualcomm Mobile name.