On December 16, 2020, Qualcomm Technologies and Google announced that they will cooperate to enhance and expand Project Treble to help more terminals equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon™ mobile platform run the latest version of the Android operating system. This upgrade is intended to help OEM manufacturers upgrade their Snapdragon mobile platform-equipped terminals to the latest version of the Android operating system without adjusting the relevant software of Qualcomm’s chipset, and can use the general Android software branch to support Qualcomm. The terminal of the technology company's Snapdragon mobile platform performs an operating system upgrade. These improvements are designed to reduce the time and resources required to upgrade the Android operating system version of the terminal equipped with Snapdragon.

As part of this cooperation with Google, Qualcomm Technologies will now be able to take advantage of the enhanced features of Project Treble, starting with the newly launched Snapdragon 888 mobile platform, supporting four Android operating system versions and four-year security on all Snapdragon platforms Update. The project aims to achieve a faster Android operating system upgrade with fewer resources, and to support a predictable software life cycle on terminals equipped with Snapdragon mobile platforms, so as to ultimately help more Snapdragon-equipped terminals run the latest Android Operating system version.

David Burke, vice president of Google’s Android engineering technology, said: “Google continues to work closely with technology partners to enhance the update capabilities of the Android ecosystem. Through this cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies, we hope that Android users can get access to their devices. The latest operating system upgrade and higher security."

Kedar Kondap, vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, said: "We are very pleased to be able to work with Google to use the enhanced features of Project Treble to expand the support of the Snapdragon mobile platform for the Android operating system and security updates in the future. We look forward to accelerating deployment through this cooperation. The speed of upgrading the Android operating system of the Snapdragon terminal, while providing end users with an excellent user experience."