Next-generation mobile phones will regain growth through AI neural chips.

Next-generation mobile phones will regain growth through AI neural chips. | in terms of mobile phone purchases, that will be displaced, of course, by headwear and uh earware and all kinds of devices that are beyond just your phone. Well, I think a lot of that, sorry, the reason the phone sales dropped off is because they didn't have a function or a feature that everyone was clamoring for... But again, AI could completely change that. The neural chips.

in terms of mobile phone purchases, that will be displaced, of course, by headwear and uh earware and all kinds of devices that are beyond just your phone. Well, I think a lot of that, sorry, the reason the phone sales dropped off is because they didn't have a function or a feature that everyone was clamoring for... But again, AI could completely change that. The neural chips.

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