Qualcomm is set to reveal of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 (likely naming), on September 22 at the next Snapdragon Summit. While the names remain a mystery, Qualcomm has been dropping hints about the upcoming platforms one by one.
Today, Qualcomm is sharing details about the next generation of the Hexagon NPU, built to enable on-device multimodal AI applications, especially agents. Two key highlights of the upcoming NPU, according to Qualcomm, are the new “Element Accelerator” and “much larger shared memory.”