Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly transitioned from a sci-fi concept to a tangible, real-world tool seemingly overnight. But while AI chatbots like ChatGPT have grabbed headlines for their early successes and mistakes, on-device AI is set to be the next step in their evolution as convenient and powerful assistive tools for everyone. Devices powered by Snapdragon X Series platforms are at the forefront of this transformation, providing businesses and organizations with AI capabilities that are changing how we all work and collaborate — and will continue to do so in the future.
What sets Snapdragon apart from x86 compatible processors is its Windows on Snapdragon features. A powerful NPU accelerates AI tasks like voice and image processing, while a high-performance, low-power CPU ensures smooth and efficient operation, even with demanding tasks.
The Snapdragon NPU is built specifically to accelerate AI workloads and can handle trillions of AI calculations a second, making it a capable way to power modern AI on-device, rather than relying on cloud connected servers. This makes AI faster and more effective, as well as maintaining privacy by keeping your data only on your device.
Snapdragon X Series processors take AI performance to the next level, reaching as high as 45 TOPs (trillions of operations per second), allowing for robust AI model calculations. For example, this enables Stable Diffusion image generation in under a second, and the ability to handle up to 13 billion parameters of text prompting in text-based tasks. Compared to competitors, you can run more demanding large language models locally, and all without sapping the battery.
A new era of AI assistance
It’s not just about faster AI computations, though – it’s about what that power delivers for workers. With a Snapdragon enabled laptop, workers can enjoy real-time, local translation during meetings. Voice-to-text transcription can happen instantaneously and accurately with an NPU, meaning you never miss an important point in the conference call – even if you have to step away. And this is just one example, as many of our favorite apps are being updated with new AI enabled experiences all the time.
Snapdragon NPUs allow for faster and more effective image and text generation, too – perfect for whipping up concept art for a new project on the fly. This additional performance allows the AI and worker collaborative and creative process to happen in near real-time, rather than consistently waiting for the task to complete before iterating.
For creative professionals, the apps in Adobe’s Creative Suite can all use NPUs for advanced generative purposes, with a more than 10% boost over competing Intel hardware. In Gimp Chat, Snapdragon X NPUs can generate images up 3.7 times faster, while in DaVinci Resolve the NPU-powered Magic Mask feature is up to three times faster on Snapdragon.
This helps businesses deliver high-quality results to clients faster, making them more competitive in fast-paced industries, and it’s just the beginning. More apps are adding AI-powered capabilities every week, and on-device NPUs can perform those tasks faster, more effectively, and with added privacy than cloud-powered solutions.
Snapdragon drives AI innovation
For companies developing in-house AIs, Snapdragon’s NPU can compress and quantize algorithms while maintaining effectiveness and accuracy. Qualcomm’s AI Stack accelerates AI development and deployment with the Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK and Qualcomm AI Engine Direct SDK. These tools help developers fully leverage the power of Snapdragon SoCs to optimize performance for workers and consumers.
In an era of swift AI advancement, it pays to be at the forefront of the latest technologies. With Snapdragon laptops, you can rest assured that your teams have the best hardware to deliver on task, on time. With Snapdragon, AI can be the office assistant all workers need, to be their most effective at all times.