Huawei has accelerated its AI accelerator roadmap, moving up the release of the Ascend 960 series and significantly boosting the FP4 performance of its upcoming hardware.
Qualcomm has upgraded its Hexagon NPU with 50% more local memory and a dedicated transformer accelerator to boost on-device AI performance.
The Apple A20 Pro chip in the iPhone 18 Pro has appeared on GeekBench AI, revealing a 32-core neural engine design and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro focuses on architectural efficiency and data movement to handle complex AI models locally without relying solely on increased system RAM.
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 flagship chips will feature an upgraded Hexagon NPU capable of running local AI models with up to 30 billion parameters.
Xiaomi has detailed the Xring O100 AI accelerator, featuring memory bandwidth up to 1.22 TB/s and inference speeds of up to 330 tokens per second.
