Qualcomm announced several new technologies at MWC. Many of them have promised to serve as a fix for faster 5G, AI, and Wi-Fi that could supercharge your next smartphone. They’re all impressive additions to Qualcomm’s proprietary lineup, which will certainly help the company maintain its presence as one of the leading manufacturers of mobile processors in the world–but the AI Hub is in a league of its own.
Qualcomm shared a press release covering the device where Durga Malladi, senior vice president and general manager of technology planning and edge solutions at Qualcomm, was quoted. “Now with the Qualcomm AI Hub, we will empower developers to fully harness the potential of these cutting-edge technologies and create captivating AI-enabled apps,” he said. “The Qualcomm AI Hub provides developers with a comprehensive AI model library to quickly and easily integrate pre-optimized AI models into their applications, leading to faster, more reliable, and private user experiences.”
So what does this mean? Basically, the Qualcomm AI Hub has a library of more than 75 of the most popular AI models that have been pre-optimized to assist in processing AI tasks performed by Snapdragon and Qualcomm-based devices. This takes the AI processing burden off your device itself and allows the hub to take on the brunt of the work. This should work particularly well with products like the newer Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and X Elite SoCs, which are designed to give generative AI a huge boost.
