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According to the Wall Street Journal, Qualcomm has approached Intel about an acquisition. A deal is said to be "far from certain", but at least talks have begun on the matter. An acquisition of Intel would be big news, and a sign that the x86 giant's fortunes have worsened in recent years. Most recently, Qualcomm reported a $1.6 billion loss and announced it would lay off more than 10,000 workers to cut costs. The company has also been unable to compete in the mobile space with the latest advances in chips like the Apple Silicon and Snapdragon X. Intel has also had problems with its recent desktop chips. ...

At the Computex conference earlier this year, Qualcomm 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's Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), you need AI software that can match it. The good news is that Qualcomm has now developed, optimized, and verified AI models for its 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU. Register to open...

Meta announced yesterday the launch of the next generation large language model Llama 3, which has two versions with 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, claiming to be the most powerful open source large language model. At the same time, Qualcomm announced support for Meta Llama 3 to run on Snapdragon terminals. According to reports, the two parties will optimize the execution of the Meta Llama 3 large language model (LLM) directly on terminals such as smartphones, PCs, VR/AR headsets and cars. Developers will be able to access resources and tools in Qualcomm AI Hub to implement on Snapdragon platforms…

On social media platforms, Qualcomm has announced an exciting news in advance - the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X series AI PC processor will be officially unveiled on April 24. The focus of this conference is undoubtedly two new chips: Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus. As the highlight of this conference, the technical strength of Snapdragon X Elite should not be underestimated. It is built based on TSMC's 4nm process and has a 12-core Oryon large core design. This configuration enables its CPU single-core performance to compete with Apple's M series and Intel's Core chips. In terms of performance running...

Qualcomm's most powerful mobile chip, Snapdragon 8Gen3, has ushered in a "flagship" product with the same origin. On March 18, Qualcomm officially launched the third-generation Snapdragon 8s mobile platform (Snapdragon 8s Gen3). With its flagship CPU, GPU and AI performance, it fully supports powerful terminal-side generative AI functions, always-aware ISP, ultra-immersive mobile gaming experience, breakthrough connectivity and lossless high-definition audio. Of course, what everyone is most concerned about is which mobile phone manufacturer will be the first to carry this flagship chip. At the event, Xiaomi Group President and Xiaomi Brand…

The 2024 Mobile World Congress has kicked off. At this year's MWC, 5G and AI are still the most popular topics. For example, Qualcomm officially launched the new Qualcomm AI Hub at today's MWC launch event, creating a center for developers to obtain development resources so that they can build AI applications based on Snapdragon or Qualcomm platforms. Specifically, Qualcomm AI Hub can provide developers with a fully optimized AI model library, including traditional AI models and generative AI models, which can support deployment on Snapdragon and Qualcomm platforms. Open...