Qualcomm designs wireless and AI processors for smartphones, data centers and smart glasses. Recent coverage centers on its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 chips, the latter running a 30B-parameter MoE model on-device, plus custom AI inference chips for AWS, a patent license for Huawei's LogicFolding technique, and its CEO's forecast that phones will run 100B-parameter models by 2028.
Developer seeks help running BiRefNet on Qualcomm chipsA developer asked the community for help deploying the BiRefNet segmentation model on Qualcomm mobile GPUs and NPUs with sub-second latency. Compilation to the NPUs keeps failing, which the poster attributes to the model's deformable convolutions, and he asked whether others have succeeded.
Qualcomm CMO on marketing invisible infrastructure as a brandQualcomm Chief Marketing Officer Don McGuire speaks with Raja Rajamannar about transforming invisible infrastructure into a consumer brand as AI moves into everyday devices.
ByteDance in Talks to Buy MediaTek AI ChipsByteDance Ltd. is close to an agreement to buy data center semiconductors from MediaTek, securing vital components for TikTok's owner while helping the Taiwanese chipmaker compete with Qualcomm.
Qualcomm CEO: Phones to Run 100B-Parameter Models by 2028Qualcomm's CEO revealed that AI companies want phones to continuously run 100-billion-parameter models by 2028.
ASML vs. Qualcomm: which AI stock is better?The article compares ASML and Qualcomm: ASML is the sole supplier of EUV lithography machines, with FY2025 revenue of $36.6B, net income of $10.8B and free cash flow of $12.4B; Qualcomm designs wireless and AI processors for smartphones and data centers.
Mecka AI Raises $60M Series B for Robotics PushMecka AI raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft's M12 and Qualcomm. The company builds tech to help robots understand and operate in the physical world; CEO Josh Gao said scaling physical AI requires major investment in sensors, infrastructure and real-world data collection.
Qualcomm Licenses Huawei LogicFolding Chip Tech PatentsQualcomm has agreed to license patents underpinning Huawei's LogicFolding chipmaking technique, seen as a win for Huawei's push into overseas AI markets.
Meta launches Muse, smart glasses; US-China stress human control of AIIn this week's consumer tech roundup, Meta launched Muse and smart glasses; Chinese and US leaders stressed AI should remain "under human control" during a summit; Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, and Trump is set to meet tech executives on AI oversight.
PrismML brings tiny LLMs to Qualcomm smart glassesPrismML showcased its 1-bit Bonsai LLM at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit. The 2-billion-parameter vision-language model runs locally on smart glasses powered by the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 Platform. It shrinks larger models 4x while retaining benchmark performance, advancing device-based open-weight AI. No smart glasses running it have been announced yet.
Qualcomm launches two AI-focused smartphone chips, can run 30B model locallyAt its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6, targeting on-device AI. The Extreme can run a 30B-parameter MoE model locally, supports up to 200M-parameter sensing models, 8K 60fps video and APV codec, with Motorola Signature 27 launching on it.
Analyst: Qualcomm may be an underrated AI stockThe Motley Fool highlights Qualcomm as potentially underrated after a partnership with Amazon that could see Qualcomm sell up to $60 billion in AI chips and grant Amazon warrants to buy $4 billion of its stock. Qualcomm's market cap is about $200 billion and it is up roughly 6% year-to-date.
Qualcomm and AWS collaborate on AI chips and design toolsQualcomm is building custom AI inference chips for multiple AWS product generations; AWS will use Qualcomm for inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to help design those chips.
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