At the Computex conference earlier this year,QualcommThe company released the Snapdragon X Elite platform. At the press conference, the company almost only emphasized the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of this series of chips, and introduced very little about the CPU and GPU. However, in order to unleash the powerful performance of Qualcomm Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), it needs AI software that can match it.
The good news is that Qualcomm has already developed, optimized, and verified AI models for its 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU. Registered developers can go toQualcomm’s AI Hub Get these pre-trained models to quickly build AI applications.
Qualcomm officially stated: "Qualcomm AI Hub now provides computing models for everyone. Register now to run, download and deploy optimized models on the Snapdragon X Elite platform. AI Models. "
Qualcomm AI Hub provides a variety of AI models optimized for edge devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors, covering areas such as image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and generative AI.In addition, AI Hub also provides convenient tools and documentation to help developers easily deploy AI models in applications such as vision, audio, and voice.
To further simplify the development process, developers can filter models based on tags such as "Backbone", "Basic", "Quantized" and "Real-time". The developer center also provides detailed examples and code snippets to guide developers to deploy and run AI models on Snapdragon X Elite processor series devices.
By providing pre-trained models optimized for the 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, Qualcomm hopes to see a large number of applications that can take advantage of the powerful AI capabilities of the Snapdragon X Elite platform emerge in the next year, thereby stimulating market demand for Qualcomm SoCs.
In fact, Qualcomm emphasized AI capabilities rather than high-end CPUs and GPUs at the Snapdragon X Elite launch conference partly to attract the attention of software developers. Qualcomm believes that AI will be the killer feature of PCs in 2024.
In addition, by providing models optimized for specific hardware, Qualcomm also ensures that AI programs can get the best performance on the Snapdragon X Elite platform, which will give it an advantage over competitors AMD and Intel, which are about to launch AI processors with high-performance NPUs.