Through its HR specialist co-op, Microsoft has posted a vocation posting that proposes its joint effort with Qualcomm won't end with pushing the organization's Snapdragon 835 processors into its Surface portable PCs running Windows 10, however will stretch out to the Qualcomm's cutting edge leader SoC (framework on-chip), Snapdragon 845. That chip has not yet been discharged, but rather is next in line and will discover its way into telephones like Samsung's Galaxy S9.
The activity posting is for an "Equipment Test Engineer/Manufacturing Engineer," and particularly one who is a specialist in Wi-Fi advancements and assembling. The perfect hopeful will have shown encounter planning and conveying test answers for generation in customer items, and furthermore have involvement in outline of RF test stations, to name only a portion of the coveted capabilities.
Where things get fascinating is in the "must-have hard aptitudes" segment of the posting. Microsoft is after a person with hands-on involvement with Qualcomm's MSM8998, which is the chip producer's Snapdragon 835 SoC, and furthermore Qualcomm's SDM845, the inside codename for its Snapdragon 845 SoC.
Tragically the posting does not really expound on the undertaking, so we don't recognize what sort of gadget Microsoft has at the top of the priority list for Qualcomm's up and coming leader processor. It could be another age Surface tablet, or even a Surface cell phone, should Microsoft need to go down that way once more. Microsoft has to a great extent surrendered the cell phone showcase, however the organization keeps up it has an intrigue. Prior this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the organization will keep on producing handsets, however needs to accomplish something else with future models.
"What we've finished with Surface is a decent case. Nobody before us had thought of 2-in-1s, and we made that classification, and made it a fruitful classification, to the point where there are more 2-in-1s coming, and that is the thing that we need to do. In this way, it could be said, when you say 'Will we make more telephones?', I'm certain we will make more telephones, however they won't look like telephones that are there today," Nadella expressed on Marketplace.org's Make Me Smart podcast.
The posting additionally specifies going to China four or five times to "manage the JDMI1 producing sending." The JDMI1 plant is the place Taiwanese producer Pegatron works and constructs Surface tablets and Xbox One consoles.