Qualcomm is no stranger in running artificial intelligence and machine learning systems on-device and without an internet connection. They've been doing it with their camera chipsets for years. But on Tuesday at Snapdragon Summit 2023, the company announced that on-device AI is finally coming to mobile devices and Windows 11 PCs as part of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and X Elite chips. Both chipsets were built from the ground up with generative AI capabilities in mind and are able to support a variety of large language models (LLM), language vision models (LVM), and transformer network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, up to 10 billion parameters for the SD8 gen 3 and 13 billion parameters for the X Elite, entirely on-device. That means you'll be able to run anything from Baidu's ERNIE 3.5 to OpenAI's Whisper, Meta's Llama 2 or Google's Gecko on your phone or laptop, without an internet connection.

Technological shifts in the industry are needed to continue to meet demand and deliver profits. Traditionally information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) staff have worked on opposite sides, siloed from each other – not overlapping on projects or deployments. However, in the world of industrial IoT (IIoT) that approach has been flipped, demanding that these departments be entirely in sync and aligned. With Gartner's prediction of 60% of IIoT analytics coming from IIoT platforms coupled with edge computing, OT/IT convergence is necessary to prepare for this influx of IIoT analytics for continued, if not improved, performance and output from refineries and drilling operations, along with individual machines involved in those operations. One concern for aligning teams on IIoT investments and deployments is the differences in languages used.

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) will breakout in 2018, with organizations ramping up deployments and incorporating IoT technologies into their products, processes and workflows. Research firm Gartner predicts there will be nearly 20 billion devices connected to the IoT by 2020, and IoT product and service suppliers will generate more than $300 billion in revenue. We spoke with a number of IT leaders and industry experts about what to expect from IoT deployments in the coming year. Following are six IoT trends to watch in 2018. Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, predicts 2018 will be the year of consumer IoT.