Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon flagship chip wants your AI agents to stay on-device

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR After CPU and GPU, Qualcomm is teasing NPU upgrades on the upcoming Snapdragon Elite chips. The Hexagon NPU is claimed to bring specialized upgrades to respond to queries much faster. Qualcomm is stressing heavily on on-device agentic AI workflows, saying the NPU will be able to run Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with up to 30B parameters.