# AI in Game Development

The [Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK](https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/software/neural-processing-sdk-for-ai) is an all-in-one SDK that supports heterogeneous computing, system-level configurations and is designed to direct AI workloads to all accelerator cores on Qualcomm platforms.
It provides developers flexibility, including inter-core collaboration support and other advanced features.

For Unreal Engine developers, one of the
[Snapdragon Game Plugins for Unreal Engine](https://github.com/SnapdragonStudios/snapdragon-game-plugins-for-unreal-engine) is the
[Qualcomm NPE Plugin](https://github.com/SnapdragonStudios/snapdragon-game-plugins-for-unreal-engine#qualcomm-npe-plugin). This plugin uses the Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK (also known as SNPE)
to enable hardware acceleration of AI model inference on devices with NPU.

See [AI app development](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-62010-1/topic/ai-app-development.html#ai-app-development) for detailed information on how to work with AI models, a detailed workflow, and scalability vs. performance options.

Last Published: Jun 16, 2026

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