Bringing the Snapdragon™ magic to the embedded market
Variscite, a leading design and manufacturer of embedded solutions, announced the launch of the company’s newest System on Module, the VAR-SOM-SD600. This latest offering is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 (APQ8064) 1.7 GHz quad Krait™ processor, further enhancing Variscite’s rich product portfolio.
VAR-SOM-SD600 main features include:
• Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 600 (APQ8064) 1.7 GHz Quad Krait™ up to 22,400 DMIPS
• Adreno 320 GPU providing 2D/3D graphics acceleration
• Full HD 1080p video encoding/decoding capability
• 2GB DDR3, 64GB eMMC
• Simultaneous multiple displays support up to QXGA 2048 x 1536 x 24 bpp
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Dual Band WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n with MIMO option and Bluetooth 4.0 + BLE
• 4 x USB, SATA, PCIe
• Dual camera input, Audio in/out
• Android and Linux support
Variscite also offers a fully featured, touchscreen-enabled VAR-SD600CustomBoard Carrier. It serves as a complete development kit for evaluation and application development. It interfaces with a 7″ capacitive touchscreen and two OV5640 CMOS sensors.
VAR-SD600CustomBoard – SBC and development kit
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As AI-driven demand accelerated through 2025, memory chip shortages developed as semiconductor manufacturers shifted capacity to large-volume buyers, leaving many sectors, including medical, industrial, edge/IoT, and robotics poorly served. Climbing prices and lengthening lead times, exacerbated by knock-on effects across other SoM components, have created two clear pressure points. SoM vendors relying on outsourced manufacturing have limited flexibility when availability drops, leaving customers facing the same delays. Separately, product developers who chose chip-down architectures over SoM-based designs must procure components on their own. Those buying in smaller quantities are routinely pushed down supplier priority lists, and in many cases cannot get supply at all.
