Qualcomm CEO Says AI Companies Want Phones Running 100B-Parameter LLMs by 2028

Qualcomm Says AI Companies Are Building Phones Around 100B-Parameter Models

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are starting to do phones and are asking the chipmaker to support running 100 billion parameter large language models locally on devices continuously by 2028. The remarks came during a wide ranging interview covering China versus US AI sentiment, how AI is changing smartphones and wearables, Qualcomm's data center strategy, and what 6G will unlock.

Wccftech reported that Amon hinted smartphones capable of running 100 billion parameter LLMs could arrive by 2028, while noting the discussion did not address DRAM supply and cost challenges.

Apple Unveils HomeView Smart Home Push

Separately, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman detailed Apple's smart home strategy centered on a HomeView display hub, a new HomePod mini, and an updated Apple TV, with second party accessories from LG and Schneider. The countertop HomeView with a speaker base will come in space gray, silver, starlight and pink, while the wall mounted version comes in space gray and silver. The new HomePod mini will come in midnight, green, white, blue and pink.

According to the report, the HomeView hub is powered by a standard A18 chip, the new Apple TV gets a standard A19 chip up from A15, and the HomePod mini moves to an S10 chip from S5. Apple expects HomeView to ship around mid November, while the new Apple TV and HomePod mini are on track for October 30 with preorders opening the following week. The hub will run a limited set of Apple apps with Siri and connected accessories at the center, and will not have an app store.

Silicon Valley Adopts Super Intelligence Rebrand

Elsewhere, Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella have all adopted the term super intelligence after the Trump administration rebranded artificial intelligence. Benioff said the era of super intelligence is here and renamed AIForce to SIForce, while Tesla and SpaceX have been rebranded accordingly.

Ukraine Drone Strikes Knock Out Third Yandex Data Center

Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged or shut down three of Yandex's five large Russian data centers in four days. The latest strike completely shut down the Vladimir facility, a 50 MW data center designed for 2,880 IT racks, disrupting more than 80 Yandex Cloud services including Yandex Pay, Yandex Go, Yandex Music and Yandex Taxi. According to Cloudflare radar data, Russian bot traffic from Yandex's network dropped sharply following the attacks.

Sources: Techmeme