By making its trained AI models optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, Qualcomm aims to catalyze demand for PCs based on its system-on-chips (SoCs), with the hope of having a host of AI-enabled applications that can take advantage of its Snapdragon X Elite within a year. The move is also designed to give Qualcomm a competitive edge against AMD and Intel, who are also about to roll out their new CPUs with high-performance NPUs for AI PCs.
Key takeaways:
- Qualcomm has developed, optimized, and validated its AI models for its 45 TOPS Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), which are available at the company's AI Hub for registered software developers.
- The Qualcomm AI Hub contains various AI models optimized for deployment on edge devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors, including image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and generative AI.
- By making its trained AI models optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, Qualcomm aims to catalyze demand for PCs based on Qualcomm's SoCs and give it a competitive edge against AMD and Intel.
- Qualcomm's focus on AI capabilities in its Snapdragon X Elite announcement is part of a strategy to attract software developers' attention to what it believes is the killer feature of 2024 PCs.