Qualcomm CEO Says Firm Working With ‘Pretty Much All’ Major AI Companies on Undisclosed Devices
SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the chipmaker is collaborating with “pretty much all” major artificial intelligence companies on undisclosed device projects, according to Fortune.
Amon did not identify specific partners or products, but described the scope of the partnerships as involving virtually every leading AI player, Fortune reported. Qualcomm has not disclosed timelines or specifications.
Qualcomm has embedded neural processing capabilities into its Snapdragon mobile chipsets and expanded into automotive, PC and industrial markets. The company’s strategy centers on running AI models locally on devices rather than relying solely on cloud-based processing — an approach known as edge AI.
Edge AI hardware
As AI companies seek to deploy their models on consumer and enterprise hardware, Qualcomm’s low-power chip designs target on-device inference workloads. The company competes with Nvidia, Intel and Apple in the AI silicon space.
AI companies that built their businesses on cloud-hosted large language models have been moving to bring intelligence directly to end-user devices, creating opportunities for chipmakers with low-power, high-performance silicon.
Qualcomm shares trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker QCOM.