As Intel, MS and Qualcomm struggle in contest over laptops based on last year's best Snapdragon 835 phone chip, Huawei has just announced the first DynamIQ equipped chips using the Kirin 970 with a Mali G72 with its built in AI Neural Processor.
(and with an added AI neural processor block as well as it turns out)And the world moved over that way 100 yards as the shifting of the tectonic plates happened.
Mind you, they mated up the Mali G72 with the exact same year before last bone stock big and little cores (now run at 10nm), bumped up the radio baseband specs up double to let the chip breathe and gave it enough systems memory to let it breathe.
It isn't the best it can be, but it still turned in
25 TIMES improvements in throughput on video image recognition, the very hardest thing you can do on a smart phone.
And it goes on sale next month.
And folks, that 30-50x times better processing speed that was promised? Well, it ranges from 25x to 30x right now depending on what you are running on the Mate 10 phone. AI execution of learned items is SIMPLY AMAZING, there just ISN'T any comparison to old technologies because the AI is done before the old stuff gets started.
But you got to have an AI based app to get to use all this new speed .......This applies right now to movies, pictures, games and display of web pages, etc. What used to have to be sent up the web to a server farm, calculated and then sent back to you is now handled on your phone at speeds that your Mark 1 eyeball simply can't follow very well.
Every software out there will have to be optimized to take advantage of this HUGE HUGE improvement in computer processing power.
It is worth it and it means that all old legacy apps will all fade away very shortly.
Intel was never into Graphics, which means they sorta missed out on this boat completely. AMD however gets it, and AMD will inherit the laptop/desktop space pretty quickly accordingly, with the old phone SOC builders being their main competition going forward.
Google gets it completely, and will be the first full infrastructure to convert over to AI based everything. Chromebooks may become hard to compete against in laptop space.
MS is still struggling hard to accommodate ARM chipsets of the previous generation sort, and MS will have to struggle again to accommodate this latest wave of AI change.
Intel jest upped and died yesterday, but Intel hasn't bothered to read their email yet so they are oblivious to everything that is going on yet again.
Change, she comes .......=========================================
Better info is coming out of Kirin 970's origins and design. It REALLY IS last year's chip run at 10nm, with the 10nm radio/baseband such is available now, using the new Mali G-72 GPU unit swinging a second neural processing "add in" chunk that gives more AI speed than just the plain G-72 could give.
Huawei did a very selective "bang for the bucks" VERY QUICKLY DONE upgrade that has kicked them all the way to the front of the pack and raised the bar for all that follow them.
Qualcomm has dropped plans for its Snapdragon 836 minor upgrade, since it gets no advantage over the Kirin 970 in any area.
This also includes the new interim bump chip from Samsung, it too has also dropped off the map.
ARM itself is paying attention, since it is now obvious that they really needed a larger AI block built into the Mali G-72 from the very beginning.
Huawei's use of the "adder block" of AI process shaders has yielded a clearly superior chipset and that has not gone un-noticed. It is enough of a boost that an older chip design kicks all the arguably more modern better chipsets butts right now.
Huawei put some minor $$ on the x50 faster side of last year's chipset and got a whole lot of mileage out of it -- look to see others do likewise, at once.
ARM has just put out a site chock full of FOSS things to use while updating old apps to use AI learned execution. Google has done likewise.
Also see basic Apps start to get rewritten by the app's owners for AI learned fast execution as it is the wave of the future. Those that make this mental jump quickly will succeed, those that fail to do so quickly will die off naturally.
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