Qualcomm spotlights embedded artificial intelligence in its latest Snapdragon smartphone chip - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Qualcomm launched its latest Snapdragon processor connected Tuesday for the adjacent harvest of top-tier Android smartphones — with artificial quality infused passim the spot to boost photography, sound, connectivity, gaming and security.

At its Snapdragon Summit lawsuit successful Hawaii, Qualcomm made artificial quality the centerpiece of its selling transportation for its caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 arsenic it strives to physique the Snapdragon sanction into a globally recognized brand.

Artificial quality mostly refers to machine systems that tin simulate quality quality to a definite extent. It is among the hottest fields successful exertion today.

Qualcomm has agelong worked connected artificial quality and instrumentality learning, but mostly down the scenes. With its caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the San Diego semiconductor steadfast is showcasing artificial quality to marque its apical mobile processor basal out.

The institution says its caller Snapdragon AI show is much than 4 times faster than its erstwhile chips. That enables smartphones to go a sensing hub for functions specified arsenic amended knowing of dependable commands and offering multi-language translation connected the fly.

For cameras, it means recognizing aggregate items successful a framework truthful it tin automatically use filters. When idiosyncratic is wearing glasses, for example, the system-on-a-chip eliminates glare successful the changeable connected its own.

For security, the “always sensing” camera tin place erstwhile an chartless idiosyncratic is looking implicit the owner’s enarthrosis and artifact perchance delicate accusation from the screen.

For sound, the processor supports spatial audio caput tracking, truthful the euphony follows caput movements. In gaming, it supports ray tracing for better-quality shadows and reflections.

For connectivity, Snapdragon uses AI to amended the spot of wireless Internet connections. It besides supports the latest Wi-Fi 7 technology, which boasts speeds exceeding 5 gigabits per second.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is expected to powerfulness devices from astatine slightest 14 manufacturers that volition beryllium launched by the extremity of this year, including Motorola, OnePlus, Sony, Sharp and Asus, arsenic good arsenic Chinese brands Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.

“We are passionate astir enabling radical to bash more, truthful we plan Snapdragon with the idiosyncratic astatine the center,” said Chris Patrick, elder vice president and wide manager of mobile handsets. “