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Richard Priday

Android phones could surpass iPhone 16 in AI with this key upgrade

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in hand.

Android phones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip could beat the iPhone 16 Pro when it comes to AI thanks to a new type of RAM.

Korean site Ajunews (via Wccftech) reports that the 8 Gen 4 could be the first smartphone chip to use LPDDR6 RAM, an upcoming memory standard. This will supposedly benefit from a higher data bandwidth compared to current LPDDR5, LPDDR5X and LPDDR5T standards, a key factor holding back on-device AI processing right now.

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