iPhone 18 Pro Preorders Open as Qualcomm Details AI200 Datacenter NPU Scaling
With hours remaining before Apple opens preorders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4, Qualcomm has outlined plans to scale its Hexagon NPU into liquid-cooled datacenter racks for dedicated AI inference.
Key points
- Apple iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max preorders launch September 11 at 5:00 AM PDT with doubled 256GB base storage starting at $1,199.
- Apple Watch Series 12 ($399) and Ultra 4 ($799) open preorders concurrently ahead of a September 18 retail release.
- Qualcomm details Hexagon NPU datacenter scaling with AI200 (2026) and AI250 (2027) inference racks focused on memory latency and efficiency over model training.
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