$QCOM UNVEILS NEW 2NM SNAPDRAGON CHIPS WITH BIG ON-DEVICE AI PUSH
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and higher-end Extreme Gen 6, its first 2nm smartphone chips.
The biggest focus is local AI. The chips include a sensing hub that can run models up to 200M parameters for things like speaker recognition, personal memory and always-on assistants.
The Extreme version can run up to a 30B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model locally on the phone.
It also supports 8K/60fps and 4K/240fps video, while both chips add AI-based voice isolation and noise reduction.
Motorola, Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo, Honor, OnePlus and others are expected to use the new chips.