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 ...

It also has a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for on-device AI processing, and Qualcomm says the NPU can output up to 45 TOPs of AI performance. As for the GPU, Qualcomm Adreno in the ...

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 ...

Apple's M Series of processors are a crucial reason why Qualcomm and Microsoft doubled down on the Windows on ARM program and was pushed to market this year with the major CPU, GPU and NPU AI ...