Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chipset has been built to help ease the RAM crisis
- Qualcomm has detailed its next flagship Snapdragon chipset
- It features a Hexagon NPU that reduces the reliance on RAM for AI tasks
- It also includes the world's first 5GHz mobile CPU
AI is transforming technology, but it’s also causing some real issues, especially with regard to RAM, which is now in high demand and short supply (cue spiraling RAM prices). But Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship smartphone chipset could help address this issue.
In a series of blog posts, the company has revealed that its new, as-yet-unnamed mobile silicon brings AI processing closer to the chipset, reducing its reliance on RAM in the process.
It achieves this in large part through a new Hexagon NPU (neural processing unit), which uses various techniques to power “larger-model-class AI experiences with low power consumption and memory requirements” so that AI on phones can be both responsive and private — in other words, it won’t...
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