
Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 Sound Platform
Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 Sound Platform
The Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 Sound platform has been designed to deliver rich and immersive experiences for mid-tier earbuds, speakers and headsets. The platform offers a unique way for audio OEMs to differentiate and speed time to market with unprecedented access and support for innovative features including AI, hearing enhancement, echo cancellation and noise suppression, and spatial audio, via the Qualcomm Voice and Music Extension Program.The Qualcomm® S3 Gen 3 Sound Platform is our most flexible platform ever and will help our customers differentiate and stay competitive by expanding the feature sets of their mid-tier products to deliver rich and immersive sound experiences. Support for Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless 24-bit 48kHz music streaming and an improved DAC brings audiophile quality performance to mid-tier devices.
Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 Sound Platform
- Extremely low-power performance
- Bluetooth LE Audio experiences
- Bluetooth 5.4 radio
- Ultra-small form factor
- Powerful quad-core processor architecture – supporting complex use cases
- Dual core 32-bit processor application subsystem (up to 80MHz)
- Dual core 240Mhz configurable DSP audio subsystem (runs from ROM)
- Dedicated support for Qualcomm® AI engine
- Qualcomm TrueWireless™ Mirroring technology
- Support for wake-word and/or button activated digital assistants including Amazon Alexa Voice Service and Google Assistant
- Support for Google Fast Pair
- Embedded ROM + RAM and external Q-SPI Flash
- On-chip memory for audio buffering
- Support for aptX Audio including aptX Adaptive
- 3-microphone Qualcomm cVc
- Support for Qualcomm Adaptive ANC - feedforward, feedback, hybrid and adaptive
- High-performance audio combined with low-power consumption and designed for Snapdragon Sound:
- aptX Voice technology superior for call quality on uplink and downlink
- 24bit/96kHz high resolution audio
- Voice back-channel for in game chat
- Stereo Recording
- Lossless audio quality at up to 48KHz with Snapdragon Sound