By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Qualcomm (NASDAQ:) stated on Monday it’s bringing know-how first developed for its laptop computer chips to its cell phone chips, aiming to make them extra highly effective for generative AI duties.
The San Diego-based firm is the world’s largest vendor of cell phone chips. In an effort to broaden its enterprise, the corporate in 2021 employed a gaggle of ex-Apple engineers to assist it design laptop computer chips, which went on sale this yr and are serving to energy AI options in Microsoft (NASDAQ:)’s Home windows.
Now, the know-how developed by that group – a set of customized computing know-how Qualcomm has branded “Oryon” – is being put into the corporate’s cell phone chips for the primary time.
The corporate has additionally re-worked the elements of the chip, which is named the Snapdragon 8 Elite, to deal with duties similar to producing photos and textual content. Qualcomm will provide software program builders particular instruments past those already out there in Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Android working system to faucet into these elements of the chip.
“AI has been a kind of the place I feel Google is shifting quick, however we have now our personal know-how to supply that finish developer,” Chris Patrick, Qualcomm’s senior vice chairman and basic supervisor for cellular handsets, instructed Reuters.
Qualcomm stated Samsung Electronics (KS:), Asustek Pc and Xiaomi (OTC:), amongst a number of others, will use the brand new chip.
