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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Elite Extreme Gen 6 with on-device AI up to 30B MoE
Qualcomm unveiled two flagship smartphone chips — Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 — that emphasize on-device AI. Both include new sensing hubs that can run models up to ~200 million parameters (for always-on personalization), while the Extreme variant can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally; the chips also add camera, audio, and pro-video features (including APV codec) and are already slated for use in Motorola’s Signature 27.
KEY POINTS
- Qualcomm unveiled two flagship smartphone chips — Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 — that emphasize on-device AI.
- Both include new sensing hubs that can run models up to ~200 million parameters (for always-on personalization), while the Extreme variant can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally; the chips also add camera, audio, and pro-video features (including APV codec) and are already slated for use in Motorola’s Signature 27.
- This raises the capability of smartphones to run sophisticated on-device AI (including large MoE models and persistent personal agents), which could shift more AI workloads away from cloud services and enable new local features.
WHY IT MATTERS
This raises the capability of smartphones to run sophisticated on-device AI (including large MoE models and persistent personal agents), which could shift more AI workloads away from cloud services and enable new local features.