At CES, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced its expanded IoT product portfolio, including new Qualcomm Dragonwing™ Q-series processors. Complemented by new services and developer offerings and fueled by the acquisition of Augentix, Arduino, Edge Impulse, FocusAI, and Foundries.io in the last 18 months, Qualcomm Technologies is now positioned to address the needs of a much wider spectrum of IoT customers ranging from global enterprises to independent local developers, with the vision to become the provider of choice for core edge compute and AI technology across all industrial and embedded verticals.
“At Qualcomm Technologies, we’re not just introducing new products—we’re launching a comprehensive new approach to help organizations of virtually all sizes, across virtually all verticals, reap the benefits of AI and edge compute in their pursuit for efficiency and new opportunities,” said Nakul Duggal, executive vice president and group general manager, automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “Our expanded Industrial and Embedded IoT portfolio, combined with a robust developer ecosystem, positions us as the ultimate platform for building intelligent, connected business solutions that scale.”
Empowering Developers Across the Revamped Qualcomm® Industrial and Embedded IoT Portfolio
Qualcomm Technologies is redefining its Industrial and Embedded IoT (IE-IoT) business to become a leading provider of edge compute and AI solutions across industrial and embedded sectors. Through an expanded portfolio of advanced processors, software, services, and developer tools, supported by five strategic acquisitions, the Company now offers comprehensive solutions for rapid prototyping, scalable deployment, and superior AI integration at the edge. This transformation introduces distinct product lines with competitive roadmaps, a unified software architecture supporting Linux, Windows, and Android, enabling deployment-ready solutions for multiple verticals. Combined with a superior partner ecosystem and accessible developer platforms like Arduino, Edge Impulse, and Foundries.io, Qualcomm Technologies is lowering barriers to entry and accelerating innovation from prototype to commercialization.
By integrating Arduino and enhancing developer accessibility through Edge Impulse and Foundries.io, Qualcomm Technologies is empowering one of the world’s largest developer communities to innovate faster and more securely. This unified ecosystem merges Arduino’s open-source simplicity with Qualcomm Technologies’ advanced AI, connectivity, and security technologies, while Edge Impulse and Foundries.io provide powerful machine learning and security-focused deployment tools. Together, these resources simplify development, accelerate prototyping, and enable security-rich, scalable solutions, making Qualcomm Technologies’ developer tools more accessible than ever and setting the stage for significant industry expansion and revenue growth.
Dragonwing Q-8750: Advanced On‑Device AI for Drones, Media Hubs, and Multi-Angle Vision Systems
The Dragonwing Q-8750 is Qualcomm Technologies’ most advanced IoT processor to date, engineered for high-performance edge computing and immersive experiences. Its AI engine achieves 77 TOPS with support for INT4/8/16 and FP16 precision, enabling real-time inference and even on-device large language models up to 11 billion parameters, eliminating cloud dependency for critical applications. The processor’s advanced camera architecture supports up to 12 physical cameras and triple 48 MP ISPs, making it ideal for drones, media hubs, and multi-angle vision systems.
Dragonwing Q-7790: Elevating Everyday Devices with AI and Immersive Experiences in Smart Cameras and AI TVs
The Dragonwing Q-7790 brings a new level of intelligence and responsiveness to consumer and industrial IoT devices. With 24 TOPS of on-device AI performance, the Dragonwing Q-7790 enables advanced inference for applications like smart cameras, AI TVs, and collaboration systems, without relying on the cloud. Its multimedia capabilities include dual 4K60 display support, 4K60 encoding, 4K120 video decoding, including AV1 hardware decode for premium picture quality. Superior security features such as Total Management Engine, Secure Boot, and Qualcomm® Trusted Execution Environment make it ideal for environments where data integrity is paramount.
Expanded Camera Processors Portfolio
Qualcomm Technologies has completed its acquisition of Augentix Inc., a leading Taiwanese semiconductor company specializing in smart imaging and low-power vision processing chips for IP security cameras, smart home devices, and other connected video solutions. This accelerates Qualcomm Technologies’ vision for security-focused, power-efficient edge AI across smart cameras and industrial IoT, integrating Augentix’s advanced multimedia signal processing and high-resolution imaging into Qualcomm Technologies’ product roadmap. The result will be smarter, more secure IoT devices with sharper images, faster performance, and lower energy use, strengthening Qualcomm Technologies’ position in the edge video industry.
Qualcomm Insight Platform: Unlocking Actionable Video Security Intelligence at the Edge
The Qualcomm® Insight Platform is a unified, native AI-powered video intelligence solution delivered as a service for modern security and operations teams. The Insight Platform uses Edge AI with an LLM-based conversational engine to turn videos into a real-time, profile-aware data plane. Customers can modernize brownfield deployments using Qualcomm® Edge AI boxes or AI-enabled cameras, enabling use cases from enterprise security to protecting critical infrastructure. With flexible hardware options, profile-based querying, and real-time video analytics, the Insight Platform is designed to scale virtually any industry and use case.
Furthermore, with the acquisition of Augentix, the Qualcomm Insight Platform is poised to offer a broader and more flexible portfolio of smart cameras, empowering system designers to optimize camera selection for every zone while maintaining unified control and cost efficiency. For more information, please visit the Qualcomm Insight Platform Solutions page.
Qualcomm Terrestrial Positioning Service Delivers Accurate and More Precise Positioning Across IoT
Devices across IoT verticals often rely on reliable, accurate, and precise positioning capabilities to deliver certain services. From locating devices in open-air settings, as well as underground, when offline, and in emergency settings, Qualcomm® Terrestrial Positioning Services uses a broad terrestrial signal network comprised of over 9 billion Wi-Fi access points and more than 100 million cellular towers, along with beacon-based positioning methods using Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), to deliver over 6 trillion annual location results, without needing GNSS, while offering the ability to complement satellite-based positioning systems as well for enhanced location and a faster time-to-fix.
Edge Impulse Integration on Dragonwing AI On-Prem Appliance Solution Enables Security-Focused, Scalable Edge AI Deployment
Edge Impulse is now fully integrated in the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ AI On-Prem Appliance, this all-in-one solution enables customers to run world-class inference and training in a sovereign, highly security-focused package, supporting both private networks and fully offline operations. Backed by the Edge Impulse platform, this new offering supports efficient inference for models up to 120B parameters. Users can manage their entire data pipeline, including AI-based synthetic data generation and labeling directly on the appliance. With innovative resource allocation, the system acts as a Physical AI Agent, capable of handling MLOps training, optimization, and localized model cascades for physical AI use cases, making it the ideal deployment for high-security environments.
