AI
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06/09/2026
On-Device AI Is Now a Business Decision, Not a Feature
On-device AI has shifted from a phone spec bullet to a real business architecture choice. Why where your AI runs is now a strategic…
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AI
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03/25/2026
The AI Buildout: Power, Chips, Robots, and Devices (2023 to 2026)
The post details the rapid advancement of AI from 2023 to 2026, highlighting significant investments, partnerships, and innovations in infrastructure, robotics, and consumer devices,…
3 MIN
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AI
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03/11/2026
The Milliwatt War: Where Edge AI Actually Gets Interesting
Renesas, Microchip and Ceva are pushing AI inference onto microcontrollers at milliwatt budgets. Inside the TinyML architecture war for the volume edge.
5 MIN
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AI
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02/10/2026
How AI Left the Data Center: Edge Intelligence From Movidius to Dragonwing
The evolution of edge AI processing from the Myriad 2's 100 gigaflops to the Dragonwing Q-8750's 77 TOPS illustrates a shift towards powerful, local…
6 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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11/24/2025
The Snapdragon X Elite and the Specialization Bet Nobody Won Cleanly
The Snapdragon X Elite owned the entire ARM Windows lane and still took barely 1.5% of the market. A teardown of Oryon, the AI…
13 MIN
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5G
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09/27/2025
What Qualcomm Actually Built Into the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
A silicon-level read on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: the all-Oryon 2+6 CPU, the Adreno GPU, the Hexagon NPU, and the TOPS number…
6 MIN
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AI
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07/30/2025
Why HP Is Bolting a Discrete Hailo-10H Edge AI Chip Into Its Retail Point-of-Sale Systems
HP is putting a discrete Hailo-10H edge AI chip into its Engage retail point-of-sale systems for cashierless checkout and theft detection. The dataflow architecture,…
11 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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07/16/2025
Malaysia AI Chip Export Controls and the Phone in Your Pocket
Malaysia's new 30-day permit window on H100-class accelerators is the part of the directive that actually changes procurement, and the same export coalition is…
11 MIN
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AI
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07/15/2025
Inference Runs in Two Places That Barely Talk to Each Other
The Snapdragon X Elite NPU and NVIDIA's H20 are the same story from opposite ends of the compute stack. Memory bandwidth, not TOPS, decides…
13 MIN
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5G
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07/15/2025
The Qualcomm Xiaomi Partnership Renewed the Same Week Xiaomi Shipped Its Own Chip
Qualcomm and Xiaomi renewed a 15-year partnership the same week Xiaomi shipped its own XRing O1 chip. The modem gap explains why both tracks…
10 MIN
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CHIPS & AI
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06/24/2025
Qualcomm Got Its 9 Percent. Holding It Is the Hard Part.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite walked into Computex 2025 with 9% of the AI PC market. The custom Oryon core and 45-TOPS NPU deliver, but…
7 MIN
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AI
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03/15/2025
Google Ships Gemini 1.5 Pro with Reasoning Mode Six Months Behind OpenAI
Google ships Gemini 1.5 Pro with reasoning mode six months after OpenAI's o1, while AMD's MI300X accelerator signals the AI market's shift from training…
3 MIN
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AI
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12/12/2024
Google Bets Multimodal, AMD Bets Memory, Apple Bets Control: Only One Survives
Google shipped Gemini 2.0, AMD shipped the MI300X with 180GB HBM3, Apple shipped the M4 Neural Engine. Three bets on where the AI stack…
5 MIN
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AI
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10/28/2024
iOS 18 and On-Device AI: The Sovereignty Question Apple Won’t Answer
The comparison between Apple's iOS 18 with Apple Intelligence and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite highlights a key architectural difference. Apple's system relies on cloud…
4 MIN
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AI
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10/24/2024
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: Qualcomm’s Full-Stack AI Platform Play
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is not a mobile chip refresh. Qualcomm brings custom Oryon CPU architecture to phones for the first time, a…
4 MIN
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