Smartphone hardware specifications are pivoting from central processing unit clock speeds to specialized neural processing unit (NPU) throughput. Silicon vendors are redesigning System-on-Chip (SoC) floorplans to handle low-latency generative tasks locally.
DRAM Constraints and Battery Consumption
Running multi-billion parameter models directly on mobile devices demands higher memory bandwidth, pushing baseline RAM configurations to 12GB. Battery efficiency gains from node shrink are being consumed by continuous inference tasks.