By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Qualcomm (NASDAQ:) mentioned on Monday it’s bringing expertise 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 increase 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 12 months and are serving to energy AI options in Microsoft (NASDAQ:)’s Home windows.
Now, the expertise developed by that workforce – a set of customized computing expertise 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 known as the Snapdragon 8 Elite, to deal with duties comparable to producing photos and textual content. Qualcomm will provide software program builders particular instruments past those already accessible in Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Android working system to faucet into these elements of the chip.
“AI has been a type of the place I believe Google is transferring quick, however we now have our personal expertise to supply that finish developer,” Chris Patrick, Qualcomm’s senior vp and common supervisor for cell handsets, informed Reuters.
Qualcomm mentioned Samsung Electronics (KS:), Asustek Pc and Xiaomi (OTC:), amongst a number of others, will use the brand new chip.