In October, at its Snapdragon Summit event, Qualcomm is traditionally going to present its next-generation mobile flagship processor. This year it should be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 model. The closer this event gets, the more information appears about the capabilities of this system on a chip.
The South Korean publication reports that this processor may be among the first of its kind with support for the LPDDR6 RAM standard. The A18 Pro processor, released in this year’s Apple iPhones, can be content with supporting the older LPDDR5T standard.
However, in the same article, it is said that there may be problems with the industrial production of LPDDR6 memory this year. As a result, mass distribution of this standard may not take place before 2025.
Despite the possibility of such difficulties, the use of this Qualcomm flagship processor can have a good effect on the capabilities of artificial intelligence on devices with this processor and memory. The new memory standard is expected to have increased data processing speed and lower power consumption compared to the current LPDDR5.
Apple may be catching up as it is currently researching storing large language patterns in NAND flash memory. In this case, even a limited amount of RAM will not prevent iPhone devices from working with AI.
LPDRR5T is currently the fastest memory for mobile devices. The theoretical speed of data processing here reaches 9.6 Gbit/s.
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