It has been announced today that Audi is going to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 602a processor in it's 2017 vehicle range, the Snap Dragon is the first infotainment chip by Qualcomm, the chipset is designed to meet the highest standards of the auto industry in order to give you the driver and passengers advanced control, connectivity, navigation, information, voice quality and ICE at a smartphone quality level. 

The 602a Snapdragon processor was announced at CES in January 2014, the first automotive grade infotainment chipset by Qualcomm, at this years CES January 6th - 9th Qualcomm is demonstrating their Snapdragon driven chipset in the latest Audi Q7 at their booth in central hall #8643. The processor contains a quad-core Qualcomm Krait CPU, Adreno 320 GPU, Hexagon DSP, integrated GNSS, Baseband processing with additional high performance audio, video and communication cores. When you combine these cores with the MDM modem, the 602a Snapdragon is a roadmap to a comprehensive connected experience.

The first sign of Qualcomm entering into incar multi media connectivity with Audi was their 2010 A8 model which featured 3G enabled connectivity, then came the 2nd gen multimode 3G/4G LTE chipset this gave the 2013 Audi A3 wireless connectivity, this provided in car wi fi hotspots, augmented navigation, (street level imagery streamed to the car) access to web services and internet radio.

Qualcomm has been embedding it's in car tech with leading auto makers such as VAG for more than 10 years.

Does this mean we are to experience the Snapdragon 602a infotainment power in the latest Audi EV vehicles such as the Audi A6 e-tron, R8 e-Tron, A3, A5 etc as well as their combustion and hybrid ranges, more info as we get it.