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The 6th generation AI engine also has a new Tensor Accelerator packing 2 times compute capacity and Scalar Accelerator with 50% performance improvement. Up to 3 times performance per watt improvement. A brand new, 16 times larger shared AI memory with up to 1000 times hands-off-time improvement in certain use cases, and a contextually aware 2nd Gen Qualcomm® Sensing Hub with dedicated AI processor and truly on-demand AI.

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The brand-new Hexagon 780 processor is completely redesigned and features our biggest leap in architecture and performance in years. We call it the fused AI accelerator architecture. In past generations, we used scalar, vector, and tensor accelerators. For this new generation, we’re removing the physical distances between the accelerators and fusing them together, so it’s now on one big AI accelerator. We’ve also added a dedicated large shared memory across the three different accelerators, so they can share and move data efficiently - up to 1000x faster in certain use cases.

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The 2nd Generation Qualcomm Sensing Hub

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