← Back to Services📱Qualcomm AI Engine — Mobile & IoT Edge AI Processing
edge-ai-inference • Mobile & IoT
Qualcomm AI Engine, integrated into Snapdragon mobile and IoT platforms, brings dedicated AI acceleration to over 1 billion devices. Its Hexagon Neural Processing Unit (NPU) handles on-device LLM inference (up to 7B parameters), real-time translation, voice assistants, and computational photography without cloud round-trips.
Features
- •Hexagon NPU supports 48 TOPS INT8 inference performance
- •On-device LLM inference: Llama 3 7B at 15+ tokens/second
- •Hybrid AI: automatic split between on-device and cloud inference
- •Qualcomm AI Engine Direct — single API for GPU, CPU, NPU acceleration
- •Supports ONNX, TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch Mobile runtimes
- •Always-on voice, vision, and sensor processing at <5mW
Benefits
- •User voice data never leaves the device — privacy by architecture
- •Offline AI works in airplane mode, underground, remote areas
- •Real-time multilingual translation for 40+ languages on Snapdragon
- •Smartphone camera computational photography at professional quality
- •Battery-efficient: 10-hour continuous AI workload vs 2 hours on GPU