Qualcomm ships two mobile chips with Hexagon NPU built for on-device MoE AI agents
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-23
Qualcomm launched two mobile chips designed for embedded AI agents, featuring a Hexagon NPU purpose-built to run local MoE (mixture-of-experts) models on-device, pushing AI agent inference away from the cloud and onto phones and edge devices.
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