Newly announced Qualcomm flight controller

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Qualcomm have announced a new flight controller which looks to compete with DJI and 3DR for optical flow image processing and image recording.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2015/09/10/qualcomm-announces-reference-platform-high-end-performance-capabilities

Some highlights from the article:

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced Qualcomm® Snapdragon Flight™, a highly optimized 58x40mm board targeted specifically for consumer drones and robotics applications.

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The Snapdragon Flight features advanced processing power, real-time flight control on the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP, built-in Qualcomm® 2x2 Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® connectivity, and a leading global navigation satellite system (GNSS) optimized to support highly accurate location positioning.

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The Snapdragon 801 processor powers some of the world's most popular smartphones and includes a 2.26GHz quad-core Qualcomm® Krait™ CPU, Qualcomm® Adreno™ 330 GPU, Hexagon DSP, dedicated video encode engine and dual image signal processors (ISP). Together, these form a heterogeneous computing platform to support the development of advanced drone features such as obstacle avoidance and video stabilization.

It looks like this flight controller will appear first in ARF and RTF configurations (Yuneec is mentioned as one of the manufacturers that will be using the technology) however it will be available to consumers/hobbyists in the first half of 2016.