{"id":245253,"date":"2026-10-12T05:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/qualcomm-ceo-hints-that-smartphones-capable-of-running-100b-llms-could-arrive-by-2028-without-addressing-two-elephants-in-the-room-dram-supply-cost"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:06:04","slug":"qualcomm-ceo-hints-that-smartphones-capable-of-running-100b-llms-could-arrive-by-2028-without-addressing-two-elephants-in-the-room-dram-supply-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/qualcomm-ceo-hints-that-smartphones-capable-of-running-100b-llms-could-arrive-by-2028-without-addressing-two-elephants-in-the-room-dram-supply-cost","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm CEO Hints That Smartphones Capable Of Running 100B LLMs Could Arrive By 2028, Without Addressing Two Elephants In The Room; DRAM Supply &amp; Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qualcomm-ceo-hints-that-smartphones-capable-of-running-100b-llms-could-arrive-by-2028-without-addressing-two-elephants-in-the-room-dram-supply-cost2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A distilled 20B to 30B model can approach the quality of a 100B when running on a smartphone. This appears as the more marketable strategy for companies as it\u2019s the most realistic. Sadly, Qualcomm\u2019s CEO making such statements without outlining a roadmap won\u2019t get us any closer to running denser models on smartphones, but it\u2019s still a nice thought to imagine these devices having the same capabilities as bigger machines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the <a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/author\/omarsohail\/\">author<\/a>: <\/strong> Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/topic\/gadgets\/\">mobile<\/a> section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a id=\"google_preferred_source_link_single\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWM3NDB2MmIyGgA\">Wccftech on Google<\/a> to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distilled 20B to 30B model can approach the quality of a 100B when running on a smartphone. This appears as the more marketable strategy for companies as it\u2019s the most realistic. Sadly, Qualcomm\u2019s CEO making such statements without outlining a roadmap won\u2019t get us any closer to running denser models on smartphones, but it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}