Qualcomm
26 updates on Qualcomm.
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies want 100B-parameter models running on phones by 2028
Cristiano Amon says unnamed AI companies have asked Qualcomm for phones that can run at least a 100-billion-parameter model almost continuously by 2028.
Qualcomm positions Snapdragon X2 as an agentic PC chip and previews Linux support
Qualcomm says its Snapdragon X2 platform now delivers up to 85 TOPS and up to twice the tokens per second of the first-generation X Elite for on-device AI agents.
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for 30B-parameter AI
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 gives its Hexagon NPU 50% more shared memory to run 30B-parameter MoE models on a phone.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite powers the first Googlebook laptops from Dell and HP
The Dell XPS Googlebook 13 and HP Googlebook 14 use the Snapdragon X Elite and its 45 TOPS NPU to run Gemini Intelligence features, with pre-orders open.
ASUS announces Ascent QN10, a mini PC with Snapdragon X2 Elite and an 80 TOPS NPU
The Ascent QN10 is a mini PC under 0.7 liters with an 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite and a Hexagon NPU rated at up to 80 TOPS for local LLM inferencing.
llama.cpp Hexagon NPU backend tested on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phone
A user report puts Gemma 3 4B at 12.5 tokens per second of generation on a OnePlus 12 using llama.cpp’s Hexagon NPU backend, at about CPU speed but without the heat.
Qualcomm teases next-gen Hexagon NPU ahead of Snapdragon Summit 2026
Qualcomm has teased its next-generation Hexagon NPU — featuring a transformer-focused Element Accelerator and 50% more shared memory — built for on-device agentic AI ahead of the …
FBLayout fine-tunes transformers on phone GPUs 2.2 to 5.7 times faster
A MobiSys 2026 paper fine-tunes seven transformer models on phone GPUs 2.2 to 5.7 times faster than MNN, TFLite and TVM, with 4.2 times fewer cache misses.
NPUs lead LLM prefill, CPUs lead decoding on Snapdragon phones
A measurement study of five mobile LLM frameworks finds NPUs excel at prefill, CPUs at decoding, and framework gaps of up to 10x on NPUs.
Qualcomm CEO says agents will become the new app, cites more than 40 device designs
Cristiano Amon tells CNBC that Qualcomm has over 40 designs for AI wearables and that smart glasses shipments could reach hundreds of millions a year.
MLPerf Mobile v6.0 adds Llama tests in 1B, 3B and 8B sizes
MLCommons added Llama tests in 1B, 3B and 8B sizes to its mobile benchmark app, reporting token throughput next to the existing vision and image tests.
llada.cpp runs a diffusion LLM on a Snapdragon NPU up to 42 times faster
Tsinghua and Beihang researchers report LLaDA-8B generating 128 tokens 17 to 42 times faster on a Hexagon NPU than on the phone CPU.