Qualcomm chief: SI companies are asking for 100-billion-parameter-plus models on phones by 2028
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People want to run large models right on the phone, but for now that is a wish, not a finished product.
On Alex Heath's "Sources" podcast, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said leading SI companies want a smartphone to run, continuously, a model of at least a hundred billion parameters by 2028; he did not name which companies. In his words, "SI companies are starting to do phones," for example ByteDance's Doubao device in China, with more expected. Local processing is needed because personal context, sensor data and apps are not accessible to cloud agents. Amon also said memory prices have risen 5-6 times and that the smartphone market will shrink 20% in 2026.
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