Wire · technology
Qualcomm Unveils New Hexagon NPU for Always-On Agentic AI
◆ Sectors
◆ Geography
◆ Source
◆ Verified
Fusion42 · 13 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
Qualcomm unveiled its next-generation Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) designed to run agentic AI continuously on mobile devices, featuring a new Element Accelerator, 50% more shared memory, and support for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures with up to 30 billion parameters, improving AI task switching and power efficiency.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure and Semiconductors.
◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway
You must prepare your AI applications for specialised model routing on mobile devices, as Qualcomm’s Hexagon NPU now enables power-efficient agentic AI with large MoE architectures. Mobile AI developers should focus on leveraging MoE and improved memory management to optimise performance and latency.
◆ Coverage
1 source · 13 Sep 2026
◆ Related on Wire
◆ Topics