Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: Glasses with smartphone capabilities and real-time Photoshop: Introducing the Snapdragon chipset

Chips are to computing what neurons are to our body: basic functional units whose main task is to receive, process and transmit information. Their development determines if applications can become more sophisticated, handle artificial intelligence, process increasing amounts of data and reproduce clearer, more realistic images and sounds. Each advance in these integrated circuits drives the rest of the industry to develop new capabilities for smartphones, cars, household appliances, computers and more. This month Qualcomm unveiled its newest chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, designed to use artificial intelligence, increase performance fourfold and reduce energy consumption by up to 60%. These are the three basic fields that are also being developed by other companies such as Intel, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and Apple – which in June began to develop its own family of chips for the Mac, the M2. Here are some of the developments brought by Qualcomm's latest advances: Cristiano Amon, president of Qualcomm, believes that the next five years will be oriented towards technological convergence: providing other devices with smartphone capabilities while giving phones some of the benefits of computers and consoles.