Alibaba’s Qwen Glasses N1 Use Himax WiseEye Always-On Vision AI

Himax Technologies announced on October 14, 2026 that its WiseEye HX6538 ultralow-power AI processor has been integrated into Alibaba's latest Qwen Glasses N1 series, jointly powering an always-on visual sensing system for the smart glasses. The company said the processor performs real-time on-device visual AI inference at 5 milliwatts of power consumption, a figure it described as industry-leading. Himax, a fabless supplier of display drivers and other semiconductor products, issued the...