Qualcomm has had its AI Engine (PDF), a combination of hardware and software for AI tasks, on the Snapdragon 820 since 2015. Apple introduced its Neural Engine NPU in 2017 with the A11 Bionic chip.

Qualcomm's NPU, called Hexagon, is said to deliver 12 times the AI performance of Qualcomm's current in-car chips. With the power to run AI agents locally, there's the potential to raise the in ...

Qualcomm has been a bit slower in getting there; the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 took the first steps into this arena, but the Snapdragon 8 Elite may have the first NPU that can effectively deliver on this ...

While Intel and AMD have launched PC processors with an NPU in the past year as part of their AI PC efforts, Qualcomm was the first company to introduce an NPU for PCs back in 2018. In touting its ...