In a keynote speech at Computex 2024, Cristiano Amon, the CEO of Qualcomm, talked about how its new Snapdragon X chips have plenty of AI performance, up to 45 TOPs from its NPU. But he also pointed out that while talking about "industry-leading performance" is all well and good, people should also be talking about how much power such chips are using.
"People want to talk about TOPS, but they also need to talk about watts, because that's actually very, very important." In case you're wondering what on Earth the CEO of Qualcomm is referring to, TOPS is the now-standard metric for the performance of NPUs—neural processing units, that handle basic AI routines, leaving the CPU and GPU free to do other tasks.
