On-device AI explained: How Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s NPU will change smartphones in 2026

Smartphone AI is moving off the cloud and onto the device itself. With the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite Gen 5 ...
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I tested local LLMs on the Snapdragon X Elite's NPU, and they're surprisingly good and power efficient

As LLMs have grown in popularity, the ability to run them locally has also become somewhat sought after. And it's not always easy, as the raw power required for running a lot of language models isn't ...
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Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform

The Qualcomm Snapdragon series of CPUs for mobile has been the gold standard on Android phones for a very long time, and today, they announced the latest generation. This new Qualcomm chip should be ...
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Qualcomm to Acquire Alphawave Semi

Alphawave Semi’s high-speed wired connectivity and compute technologies complement Qualcomm’s next gen custom Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU and Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU processors AI inferencing growth is driving ...