Lovely to think such a powerful energy efficient number cruncher might be available for broader use. It feels like this has been nigh impossible to make good use of; maybe incorrect but my impression is Qualcomm has never wanted the hexagon to be in the spotlight, has positioned it as something your BSP maybe used for you. Hexagon-mlir feels like a very necessary renormalization, is a rallying call to get folks interested & using this thing that for decades (the microarchitecture is from 2006, happy birthday) has been there but invisible.
Nice short deck from October, previewing the MLIR and briefly introducing Hexagon, https://llvm.org/devmtg/2025-10/slides/quick_talks/baskaran_...
The GitHub for hexagon-mlir, https://github.com/qualcomm/hexagon-mlir
Lovely to think such a powerful energy efficient number cruncher might be available for broader use. It feels like this has been nigh impossible to make good use of; maybe incorrect but my impression is Qualcomm has never wanted the hexagon to be in the spotlight, has positioned it as something your BSP maybe used for you. Hexagon-mlir feels like a very necessary renormalization, is a rallying call to get folks interested & using this thing that for decades (the microarchitecture is from 2006, happy birthday) has been there but invisible.