Snapdragon 208, Snapdragon 210, Snapdragon 212 The company offers Adreno GPUs in various types, as a component of their Snapdragon SoCs: In January 2009, AMD sold their entire Imageon handheld device graphics division to Qualcomm. Further collaboration with AMD resulted in the development of the Adreno 200, originally named the AMD Z430, based on the R400 architecture used in the Xenos GPU of the Xbox 360 video game console and released in 2008, which was integrated into the first Snapdragon SoC. With growing demand for more advanced multimedia and 3D graphics capabilities, Qualcomm licensed the Imageon IP from AMD, in order to add hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities to their mobile products. At the time, 3D graphics on mobile platforms were commonly handled using software-based rendering engines, which limited their performance.
Early Adreno models included the Adreno 100 and 110, which had 2D graphics acceleration and limited multimedia capabilities. Adreno (an anagram of AMD's graphic card brand Radeon), was originally developed by ATI Technologies and sold to Qualcomm in 2009 for $65M, and was used in their mobile chipset products.
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