Qualcomm's Snapdragon 665, 730, and 730G Target AI and Gaming

Today at its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco, chipmaker Qualcomm revamped the midrange products in its system-on-chip portfolio with faster graphics, more power-efficient cores, and other silicon accouterments. From a report: The Snapdragon 670 gained a counterpart in the Snapdragon 665, and the Snapdragon 700 series has two new SKUs in the long-rumored Snapdragon 730 and a gaming-optimized variant dubbed Snapdragon 730G. "In the last several years, we've had a few different technologies that we've [explored]," said vice president of product management Kedar Kondap during a press briefing. "One is obviously [the] camera. Secondly, AI, and ... gaming ... [We've] focused on ... power, [making] sure we drive very high performance." The 11-nm Snapdragon 665 packs Kryo 260 cores and offers up to 20 percent power savings with the Adreno 610 GPU. The 8-nm Snapdragon 730 has Kryo 470 cores inside.

AI this, AI that

[SirAstral]

Okay guys... stop using those words, they don't mean what you think they mean!

At best we have advance algorithms... but nothing is actually learning... yet.

Like Quantum computing... we have been promised AI for decades and it still is not here. Even getting anything close enough to potentially pass the Turing test requires massive hardware and resources. You want something intelligent go and have sex and wait several years... and you MIGHT get something smart. But you are most likely only going to get something that is not smart but thinks it is anyways!

I have never met a smart human, seen many dumb-asses and morons though... including in the mirror.

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[Rick Schumann]

I just had to laugh right now, because I saw your comment and it's exactly, precisely what I was going to post. xD
..and yeah, sick to death of every gods-be-damned thing being so-called 'AI' -- especially when what they keep trotting out isn't very good to start with. Fundamentally it's not really any better than what they had in the 90's, just on larger and faster hardware, and more aggressively marketed.

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[Humbubba]

Words change meaning. If, in the 18th century, I told you The Turk [wikipedia.org] was an incredible and fantastic chess playing automaton, what I really would be saying was the machine is a fake, a hoax, a fantasy not credible enough to be believed one bit ("bit" as in "iota", or "extremely small amount", not "Binary Digit").

"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligenc

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[ljw1004]

Okay guys... stop using those words, they don't mean what you think they mean! At best we have advance algorithms...

ML systems are emphatically not "advanced algorithms". An algorithm is a step-by-step sequence of instructions. You don't code ML systems the same way you code algorithms. You don't think about them in the same way. You don't test them the same way. You don't validate them the same way. You don't adjust their parameters the same way. They don't have a step by step sequence of "rules" except in the trivial sense that every single cause-and-effect in the universe is a rule. Heck you don't even check them into

"Target AI"

[Anonymous Coward]

I expected AI to be a great scientific and technological breakthrough, but the marketing department was too impatient to wait for that and released it already.

Really loving the Arm for this

[Crashmarik]

I have a Jetson Nano, NVIDIA's combination of Arm processor and NVIDIA GPU. It's able to do motion detection and object recognition on 8 channels in real time. It's fabulous for home security purposes.