The QCS6490 from Qualcomm is a Wi-Fi 6/6E and Bluetooth 5.2 SoC that is designed for Enterprise and IoT applications including support for 5G and Wi-Fi 6E. It supports bi-directional Multi-User MIMO and delivers a data rate of up to 3.6 Gbps. The SoC has an integrated Kryo 670 CPU built on Arm v8 Cortex technology and an 812 MHz Adreno 642L GPU. It is designed on a 6 nm process for superior performance and power efficiency. This SoC is ideal for transportation & logistics, smart warehousing, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and e-commerce applications.
The SoC includes an Adreno 633 VPU for high-quality, ultra-HD video encode & decode, a 6th generation Hexagon DSP Qualcomm AI Engine with dual Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX), Hexagon Co-processor (Hexagon CP) 2.0 and Hexagon Tensor Accelerator. It has Qualcomm Spectra 570L 14-bit image signal processing (ISP) and two lite ISPs to support up to five concurrent cameras, and video encode/decode at up to 4K60. The SoC can be controlled via PCIe, USB 3.1 Type-C with DisplayPort and USB 2.0 interfaces.
The QCS6490 supports Qualcomm’s 4K QAM, 160 MHz bandwidth and advanced Dual Band Simultaneous functionalities for connectivity and Qualcomm Low-Power Picture Enhancement & Qualcomm True Palette display features. It also supports GPS, GLONASS, NavIC, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and SBAS location services.
