Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard shares insights and observations from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit. In the first of several pieces that will focus on individual Snapdragon Tech Summit announcements, Blanchard outlines how Qualcomm’s new premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile SOC plays into the company’s broader intelligent connected edge ambitions and highlights the paradigm shift that it represents with regard to new benchmarks of performance, particularly regarding AI.