The future for mobile devices, laptops and smartphones, will be driven by AI. Nobody at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit could show me exactly what that will look like, but they all say it will be great. It’s not Qualcomm’s job to show me, after all, since its Snapdragon platform works with Meta, Microsoft, Google, and almost every other AI developer creating this AI future. Still, the reasons why Qualcomm says it is embracing AI are contradicted by the AI demonstrations I saw during the Summit.
Qualcomm paid for my trip to Maui to check out the latest Snapdragon innovations. There’s a brand new Snapdragon X Elite chipset for Windows laptops, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 upgrade to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that you’ll find on this past year’s best Android phones, and lots of synergistic innovation between product lines.
