Over 40 different AI wearable designs are in Qualcomm's pipeline right now, and CEO Cristiano Amon is making no secret of why: the smartphone's reign as the primary computing platform is ending. He told CNBC that a new wave of hardware startups will emerge as companies seek more real-world data to power their AI agents, and Qualcomm...
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Inside Qualcomm's Bet on the Post-Smartphone Era: 40 Wearables and a New Reality Elite Chip
Qualcomm CEO says over 40 AI wearable designs are in development as the chipmaker launches a new mixed reality platform that handles 3-billion-parameter models locally at 45 tokens per second.
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