THE QUALCOMM AI ENGINE

Accelerating gen AI with heterogenous computing

The Qualcomm® AI Engine provides top on-device AI performance with power efficiency, supporting current and future applications.

What is the
Qualcomm AI Engine?

Utilizing heterogeneous computing with the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU, Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU, Qualcomm® CPUs, and Qualcomm® Sensing Hub, the Qualcomm AI Engine efficiently accelerates on-device AI applications for laptops, smartphones, vehicles, XR, IoT, robotics, and more.

QUALCOMM ORYON CPU

Leverage AI for productivity

The Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU offers high performance with peak power efficiency, custom-designed for Snapdragon® platforms.

Up to
51% Faster
vs Intel Core Ultra 9
Up to
28% Faster
vs Apple M3

Hexagon NPU

Leading AI Performance and power efficiency for gen AI

The Hexagon NPU accelerates best-in-class AI inferencing and power efficiency, custom designed to bring fast generative AI capabilities on-device.

#1 AnTuTu

Benchmark for AI Performance

#1 MLPerf

Inference v4.0

Adreno GPU

Enhance mobile graphics with innovation

The Adreno GPU advances mobile UI and graphics for video and gaming, offering stunning visuals and performance with optimized power use.

Game Super Resolution up to

8K Gaming

Efficient Parallel Processing for

high-precision formats

Qualcomm Oryon CPU

Leverage AI for productivity

The Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU offers high performance with peak power efficiency, custom-designed for Snapdragon® platforms. Custom-design, the Oryon CPU offers excellent floating point and integer performance for ultra-low, first-inference latency use cases.

Qualcomm Sensing Hub

Always-on, ultra-low power AI

The integrated Qualcomm Sensing Hub is an extremely efficient always-on AI processor for smaller neural networks and pervasive applications, such as contextual awareness and sensor processing. The Qualcomm Sensing Hub contains dedicated micro NPUs, its own DSP, memory and always-sensing ISPs for the ultimate always-on AI experience.

Exceptional AI experiences, across devices 

Whenever you need superior AI performance, the Qualcomm AI Engine delivers, powering the devices that are redefining how we experience the world.

PC AI

When it comes to AI computing power, Snapdragon X2 Elite has a fast and efficient NPU for laptops. The Qualcomm AI Engine in Snapdragon X2 Elite offers remarkable NPU speeds. Plus, creativity soars with lightning-fast generative AI capabilities, helping you create and store unique content—on device.

Smartphone AI

With Qualcomm Technologies’ on-device AI, smartphones now unleash newfound creativity, pioneering a new era of on-device gen AI experiences like gen AI-powered AI assistants providing quick and custom responses, instant content generation, advanced gaming, real-time translation, and much more.

IoT AI

The Qualcomm AI Engine accelerates on-device machine learning and computer vision in the Qualcomm® Robotics Platforms to support the development of smart, power-efficient, and cost-effective industrial and customer robots. The Qualcomm AI Stack includes Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK, which encompasses analysis, optimization, and debugging tools designed to allow developers and manufacturers to port trained deep learning networks on the various heterogeneous compute block for next-gen robotics solutions.

XR AI

By providing some of the most powerful chips ever put in a headset, Qualcomm AI Engine enables faster load times, advanced perception, and intuitive interactions to create more immersive experiences for today’s cutting edge XR devices.

Automotive AI

AI is at the center of the automotive industry and will serve as the bridge across vehicle domains and drive centralization of compute platforms. AI orchestrates information from inside and outside the vehicle, pairs it with your digital life and devices to offer an unprecedented user experience.

Devices shipped

4.3 billion+
with our Qualcomm AI Engine

Over

16,000
customers across verticals

DEVELOPERS

Developers’ gateway to superior on-device AI

Qualcomm® AI Hub is a developer-centric platform designed to streamline on-device AI development and deployment built on top of the Qualcomm® AI Stack. It leverages AI Stack tools such as the Qualcomm AI Engine Direct SDK, AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET), libraries, and more. Qualcomm AI Hub supports a wide range of Qualcomm and Snapdragon platforms across mobile, compute, IoT, and automotive.

WHITEPAPER

AI disruption is driving
innovation in on-device
inference

Explore how the proliferation and evolution of generative AI models will transform the AI landscape and unlock value.

WHITEPAPER

AI disruption is driving innovation in on-device inference

Explore how the proliferation and evolution of generative AI models will transform the AI landscape and unlock value.

AIMET is a product of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

AnTutu Benchmark ranking based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 AnTuTu benchmarks: https://www.antutu.com/en/ranking/ai1.htm

MLPerf ranking based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 MLPerf benchmarks: https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/inference-mobile/

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Our leading-edge AI, high performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity deliver proven solutions that transform major industries. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.

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