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iQOO, Motorola, Xiaomi flagship phones emphasize agentic AI and thermal performance with new Snapdragon chips

iQOO 16, Motorola Signature 27, and Xiaomi 18 Pro all ship with Snapdragon 8 Elite chipsets that claim to enhance agentic AI, camera, battery, gaming, and thermal performance. For deeptech and hardware builders: edge AI inference is now baked into flagship SoCs. Your competitive window for on-device AI services just compressed—differentiate on domain-specific models, not generic inference.
Source: The Hindu Tech ↗
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