Qualcomm recently made several major AI announcements at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona event. Each announcement supports Qualcomm’s goal of running AI at scale everywhere, including the edge. The announcements included advances relying on new Qualcomm hardware such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC for mobile devices and the Snapdragon X Elite for PCs. These chipsets enable on-device AI for various devices, with Qualcomm expected to introduce AI PC SoCs equipped with a CPU, a GPU, and an NPU capable of processing speeds of 45 TOPS. The company also unveiled the AI-powered Snapdragon X80 5G Modem and the FastConnect 7900 next-generation Wi-Fi 7 chip.
Qualcomm showcased its AI Hub, a platform offering resources to developers to create and deploy AI applications on Snapdragon or other Qualcomm platforms. The hub includes a library of 75-plus optimized AI models and allows developers to easily integrate these models into workflows. At the event, Qualcomm demonstrated the world’s first large language model and large multi-modal model running on an Android phone, showcasing its cutting-edge capabilities in AI application deployment.
The Snapdragon X Elite, specifically designed to run AI, boasts advanced features like a 4nm SoC architecture and a 12-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU with dual-core boost, enabling it to support generative AI LLM models with up to 13 billion parameters. Through a performance comparison, Qualcomm highlighted the Snapdragon X Elite’s efficiency and speed in image generation, surpassing a competitive x86 platform equipped with an efficient GPU, CPU, and NPU configuration. These groundbreaking AI advancements across smartphones and PCs demonstrate Qualcomm’s commitment to driving AI adoption on a massive scale and ushering in a new era of intelligent computing.
