Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 will pack a silicon brain with cognitive computing abilities

From PC World: Qualcomm wants to help future mobile devices learn about their users, by putting cognitive computing capabilities into its next mobile microprocessor, the Snapdragon 820.

The chip will provide mobile devices with some brain-like learning capabilities by incorporating features from Qualcomm’s Zeroth platform. Mobile devices built with the Snapdragon 820 will be able to learn about users over time, picking up human activity patterns and anticipating actions.

Putting the machine learning features on the chip, rather than in the cloud, will make mobile devices more personal and more useful than they are today, said Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm, in a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.

Devices will be able to learn more about users and their habits by associating and analyzing information collected through voice, sound, video and images. The initial use cases will be basic, but will grow over time, Aberle said.

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