The push for smarter AI extends beyond phones, laptops and other personal computing devices. Cars are getting smarter, too, and the latest entry into Qualcomm's Digital Chasis line of chips for connected cars and smart cars looks to speed up that process.

Now, in terms of AI support, the Snapdragon 8 Elite features a new Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) which will allow the device to run AI-related tasks 45% faster. The company is also bringing on-device multimodal Gen AI support allowing the chipset to run up to 70 tokens of Small Language Models.

Qualcomm has a new chip for flagship phones, and the best part is that it uses an improved version of the Oryon CPU architecture that the Snapdragon X Elite chips brought to Windows PCs earlier this year.