Qualcomm is turning parts from cellphone chips into AI chips to rival Nvidia

Qualcomm is launching a brace of caller AI chips successful an effort to situation Nvidia’s dominance successful the market. On Monday, Qualcomm announced plans to merchandise its caller AI200 spot adjacent year, followed by the AI250 successful 2027 — some of which are built connected the company’s mobile neural processing technology. 

The caller chips are built for deploying AI models, alternatively than grooming them. The motorboat marks a notable alteration for Qualcomm, which has chiefly made processors for mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and telecommunications equipment.

As reported by CNBC, Qualcomm’s AI-focused processors are based connected the company’s Hexagon neural processing units that powerfulness AI features successful its chips for mobile devices and laptops. CNBC reports that Qualcomm’s AI processors tin enactment wrong a rack with up to 72 chips functioning arsenic a azygous computer, akin to Nvidia and AMD’s GPUs.

Qualcomm’s A1200 spot features 768GB of RAM, on with show optimized for AI inference. Meanwhile, the A1250 volition travel with “a generational leap successful efficiency” that the institution claims volition let for “much little powerfulness consumption.” Humain, the AI institution that exists nether Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has already announced plans to usage the AI200 and AI250 to powerfulness computing systems, gathering connected a concern to develop AI datacenters crossed Saudi Arabia.