The Snapdragon X Elite, Qualcomm's new chip, offers big performance upgrades and supports on-device AI. It can reach 75 trillion operations per second and run at 45 TOPS for sustained calculations. Qualcomm is also collaborating with Microsoft and Meta on the Llama 2 generative AI, which the X Elite chip supports. The company claims that its on-device AI can write faster than humans can read.
Key takeaways:
- Qualcomm, a company known for its phone chips, is planning to start producing chips for computers, with a focus on generative AI capabilities.
- The company has partnered with HP and other brands, and plans to have computers running its new chips available to buy starting in the middle of next year.
- Qualcomm's new Oryon CPU is touted to deliver up to twice the performance over competing Intel i7 10-core and 12-core processor-powered laptops while consuming a third of the power. It also outperforms Apple's M2 and Intel's i9-13980HX silicon in single-threaded CPU performance.
- The Snapdragon X Elite chip, which Qualcomm is developing, is capable of reaching 75 trillion operations per second, and can run at 45 TOPS for sustained calculations. It also supports 13 billion parameters for Llama 2 at up to 30 tokens per second.