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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Publisher description: Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally

TechCrunch | Sep 22, 2026 | Ivan Mehta

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Qualcomm today announced two flagship smartphone processors, called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with a focus on facilitating better AI-focused features. The high-end Extreme version can run a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model locally. At the event, Motorola announced its Motorola Signature 27 smartphone, powered by the Snapdragon Gen 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, with general availability sometime this year.

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