Intel and Apple's formidable rival has arrived: Qualcomm releases AI PC chip.

Smartphone chip giant Qualcomm is posing a strong challenge to computer chip manufacturers. On Tuesday, October 24th, Qualcomm unveiled two new chips at an event in Hawaii that can run artificial intelligence (AI) software, including large language models (LLMs). One of them is the Snapdragon X Elite chip, which is designed for personal computers (PCs) and laptops. The Snapdragon X Elite is based on the Arm architecture and uses a new Oryon core, with each chip integrating 12 high-performance Oryon cores, clocked at up to 3.8 GHz. Laptops equipped with this chip are expected to be released in the middle of next year. Qualcomm claims that the performance of the Snapdragon X Elite surpasses that of similar chips from Intel and Apple. It outperforms Apple's M2 Max chip while consuming less power. At the same time, Qualcomm also released the Snapdragon Series 8 third-generation chip, which is designed for high-end Android smartphones. Qualcomm claims that the new generation Snapdragon chip performs AI tasks significantly faster than the previous generation chip released last year. It is said to have the world's fastest diffusion capability, reducing the time to generate images to less than 1 second, far less than the 15 seconds of the previous generation chip. The speed of the third-generation Snapdragon chip is 30% faster than the second generation, with a 20% performance improvement. The third-generation chip is powered by an AI engine and supports multimodal generative AI models and popular LLMs, capable of running up to 20 tokens per second. Qualcomm's new smartphone chips can handle larger AI models for generative AI, with a maximum of 10 billion parameters. However, this parameter count is still lower than some large-scale AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT3, which has approximately 175 billion parameters.