Qualcomm

Qualcomm is the world's leading designer of mobile processors and wireless technology, increasingly pivoting toward on-device AI inference. Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors power billions of smartphones and are being expanded to PCs, vehicles, and IoT devices with dedicated AI accelerator cores (the Hexagon NPU).

Qualcomm's AI strategy centers on edge inference — running AI models directly on devices rather than in the cloud. This approach offers lower latency, better privacy, and reduced costs for AI applications. The company's Snapdragon X Elite processors bring competitive AI performance to Windows PCs, enabling local LLM inference and AI agent capabilities.

In the physical infrastructure layer, Qualcomm represents the edge computing dimension of the agentic economy — bringing AI agent capabilities to the billions of mobile and edge devices where many user interactions actually occur.