Qualcomm's new flagship chips claim to run a 30B-parameter model locally
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 line focused on on-device AI; the 30B local-run figure is a vendor claim pending real-device testing.
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Qualcomm announced two flagship smartphone processors at its Snapdragon Summit on September 22: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
The company says the Extreme version can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally, above the 20B model Apple released in June. A new sensing hub runs small models of up to 200 million parameters, supporting local voice agents and speaker differentiation.
The local-run figure is Qualcomm's claim from a launch event, with no third-party testing yet. Motorola has announced a phone using the Extreme chip arriving this year; real performance depends on shipping devices.