Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Platform has been awarded the 2025 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year in the Edge AI Processors category.
This platform significantly enhances on-device experiences through remarkable processing power, groundbreaking AI advancements, and various mobile innovations. The Snapdragon 8 Elite includes a new custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU which delivers impressive speeds and efficiency to enhance every interaction. It provides a 45% performance boost, 44% greater power efficiency, and includes the mobile industry’s largest shared data cache. Additionally, Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU, with its newly designed architecture, achieves a 40% increase in performance and a 40% improvement in efficiency. Overall, users can expect a 27% reduction in power consumption.
The platform enhances user experiences with on-device AI, showcased through the Qualcomm AI Engine, which incorporates multimodal generative AI and personalized support. This AI Engine utilizes a variety of models, including large multimodal models (LMMs), large language models (LLMs), and visual language models (LVMs), while supporting the world’s largest generative AI model ecosystem. It also features Qualcomm’s 45% faster Hexagon NPU, which provides an impressive 45% increase in performance per watt, driving AI capabilities to new levels. Moreover, Qualcomm’s new AI Image Signal Processor (ISP) works in tandem with the Hexagon NPU to enhance real-time image capture. Connectivity options include advanced AI-driven 5G and Wi-Fi 7 capabilities, facilitating seamless entertainment and productivity on the go.
“We are honored to receive the Best Edge AI Processor award for our Snapdragon 8 Elite. This recognition underscores our commitment to pushing the boundaries of edge AI technology. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is designed to deliver unparalleled performance, enabling innovative applications across various industries,” stated Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Technology Planning & Edge Solutions, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are excited to continue driving advancements in edge AI and empowering our partners and customers to achieve new levels of efficiency and intelligence in their products.”
For more than 30 years, Qualcomm has served as the essential accelerator of wireless technologies and the ever-growing mobile ecosystem. Now our inventions are set to transform other industries by bringing connectivity, machine vision and intelligence to billions of machines and objects—from mobile devices, connected cars and homes, to connected cameras, robotics, drones, and entire cities—catalyzing the IoT. Furthermore, we are driving the evolution of connectivity with new technologies for 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to create a unified platform that will empower new user experiences, connect new industries and devices, and enable innovative types of services for the next decade and beyond.
The award trophy will be presented at the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit May 20-22 in Santa Clara, CA. The awards program is organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. The Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards celebrate the innovation and achievement of the industry’s leading companies that are enabling and developing products incorporating edge AI and computer vision technologies.
