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Qualcomm launches new smartphone chips that run a 30B MoE model locally
2026-09-22
TechCrunch reports Qualcomm launched two new smartphone chips with an emphasis on AI, saying its new top chip can run a 30B-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally on-device.
Significance 3: A new chip capable of running a 30B MoE model on-device is a meaningful infra/capability development below frontier-shifting scale.
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Implications · machine-drafted, not owner judgment
Pushes the on-device capability frontier further and extends the pattern of non-Nvidia silicon competing for AI workloads (alongside the earlier Qualcomm-Amazon datacenter chip deal), though this is mobile silicon rather than the owner's 64GB Mac local-hardware scenario.
Watch for
- Independent benchmarks of the chip's actual tokens/sec and quality on a 30B MoE model
- Whether MediaTek or Apple respond with comparable on-device MoE support
Sources
- press Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI retrieved 2026-09-23