Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Extreme Gen 6 at its summit, 9to5Google confirms, as chips for the next Android phones. TechCrunch reports Qualcomm's own claim that the sensing hub runs models of up to 200 million parameters and that the Extreme version runs a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model on the device. Qualcomm also says the hub can run a voice-in, voice-out agent. No independent measurement of those sizes is on the page.
9to5Google reports that Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 to power the next generation of Android phones. TechCrunch covers the same launch and puts the weight on what Qualcomm says the chips can run locally.[1], [2]
TechCrunch says Qualcomm claims the sensing hub runs models of up to 200 million parameters, and that the Extreme version runs a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model on the device. A mixture-of-experts model keeps many specialist parts and uses only some of them for a given step. Qualcomm also says the hub can run a voice-in, voice-out agent on the chip, and that Gen 6 adds an accelerator element meant to run models more efficiently. Those sizes are Qualcomm's own figures.[1]
TechCrunch notes that no independent measurement of those on-device claims appears on the Qualcomm page it is reporting. The launch is real, as 9to5Google also records the two chips. What a phone can actually run with them is still Qualcomm's account. The two chips are real, and the sizes remain the company's own figures.[1], [2]
