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MAUI: American wireless chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., Monday said that the company is changing to a connected computing company for the era of new artificial intelligence (AI)-centric processors, and its flagship Snapdragon processor is redefining performance across industry verticals. "Qualcomm is in the process of transformation.
As a part of company's change, Snapdragon is also changing. We are changing Qualcomm as a connected computing company for the age of new AI processors ," Cristiano Amon , president and chief executive, Qualcomm said. Amon was speaking at the ninth edition of Snapdragon Summit 2024 at Maui, Hawaii.
Advt "As the company goes into transition, Snapdragon is evolving and standing at a face of innovation in every other industry," the top executive said, adding that the speed of innovation is wheeling incredibly. The US chipset major is taking on rivals such as AMD and Intel in the PC space with the Snapdragon X Elite processor debut. Further, Amon said that Snapdragon has also seen an evolution, and it was started when the San Diego-based company needed to create a premium and innovative platform.
In a short period of time, the Snapdragon digital chassis has become the leading platform and redefining performance across industries, he said. The American multinational has launched a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip with Oryon CPU, touting to be faster SoC for Android flagship devices with enhanced generative AI capabilities. "We are about to see the next big change.
It's Gen AI." Each app, according to him, has a use case and potentially with AI, a machine could understand human language. With a new 3nm process node, the Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers 45% faster single and multi-core performance while using 27 percent less power than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor.
The company is bullish on advanced generative AI features that allow mobile banking, healthcare, shopping and other utility apps to become interactive and responsive to the personalized needs of users. Advt Some of the device vendors lined up to commercially adopt Snapdragon 8 Elite includes Samsung, Xiaomi and Honor. (The author is in Hawaii at the invitation of Qualcomm to attend the Snapdragon Summit 2024) By Muntazir Abbas , ETTelecom Published On Oct 22, 2024 at 07:34 AM IST Telegram Facebook Copy Link Be the first one to comment.
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