Chips
18 updates on Chips.
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies want 100B-parameter models running on phones by 2028
Cristiano Amon says unnamed AI companies have asked Qualcomm for phones that can run at least a 100-billion-parameter model almost continuously by 2028.
Qualcomm positions Snapdragon X2 as an agentic PC chip and previews Linux support
Qualcomm says its Snapdragon X2 platform now delivers up to 85 TOPS and up to twice the tokens per second of the first-generation X Elite for on-device AI agents.
Apple launches M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio for local AI
Apple’s new Mac Studio scales to 512GB of unified memory, which Apple says lets researchers run large language models entirely on device.
MediaTek launches Dimensity CX C10 Max, a 55 TOPS chip for Googlebook
MediaTek’s Dimensity CX C10 Max is a 3nm chip with a 55 TOPS NPU built for Google’s new Googlebook laptop category.
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for 30B-parameter AI
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 gives its Hexagon NPU 50% more shared memory to run 30B-parameter MoE models on a phone.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite powers the first Googlebook laptops from Dell and HP
The Dell XPS Googlebook 13 and HP Googlebook 14 use the Snapdragon X Elite and its 45 TOPS NPU to run Gemini Intelligence features, with pre-orders open.
Arm unveils Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU with neural accelerators in every shader core
Arm says the Mali G2-Ultra NX runs neural upscaling and frame generation on accelerators inside its shader cores, with up to 24% higher benchmark performance.
Arm unveils CSS for Mobile 2 with C2 CPU cluster, up to 1.7x faster on AI models
Arm says its C2-Ultra CPU with two SME2 units delivers up to 1.7x performance across the latest AI models and finishes an agentic workflow 24% faster.
Arm recaps Arm Create China and shows Qwen3-TTS 0.6B running on a vivo X300 CPU
Arm's Create recap shows Qwen3-TTS 0.6B on a vivo X300 CPU with SME2 at a 1.2x real-time factor and 4.7 GB peak memory.
MediaTek launches Dimensity 9600 Pro, a 2nm chip for on-device models up to 30B parameters
MediaTek says the NPU 1090 in the 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro raises LLM prefill by 51% and supports on-device models with up to 30B parameters.
ASUS announces Ascent QN10, a mini PC with Snapdragon X2 Elite and an 80 TOPS NPU
The Ascent QN10 is a mini PC under 0.7 liters with an 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite and a Hexagon NPU rated at up to 80 TOPS for local LLM inferencing.
iPhone 18 Pro: A20 Pro adds a dual 16-core Neural Engine
Apple says the A20 Pro carries 32 Neural Engine cores in total, double the AI processing power of A19 Pro, with 50 percent more memory bandwidth.