Qualcomm boosts AI and IoT capabilities with Edge Impulse acquisition
At Embedded World, Qualcomm Technologies has agreed to acquire Edge Impulse Inc., which will enhance its offering for developers and expand its leadership in AI and IoT capabilities.
This acquisition is anticipated to complement Qualcomm Technologies’ strategic approach to IoT transformation, which includes a comprehensive chipset roadmap, unified software architecture, a suite of services, developer resources, ecosystem partners, comprehensive solutions, and IoT blueprints to address diverse industry needs and challenges.
The widespread adoption of AI in IoT is driven by the ability to augment or automate workflows through rapid data collection, AI-enabled analysis, and improved decision-making, enabling enterprises to benefit from enhanced operational flexibility and efficiency. Qualcomm Technologies is well-positioned to capitalise on this trend through its leading role in facilitating industrial transformation with IoT and edge AI technology.
Since last year, Qualcomm Technologies has adapted its strategy to meet the requirements of various IoT segments, providing integrated solutions that combine services, software, and hardware designed to scale across multiple verticals, including consumer, security, healthcare, retail, energy, and enterprise.
Edge Impulse’s end-to-end edge AI platform enables over 170,000 developers to easily create, deploy, and monitor AI models on various edge devices. It supports varied microcontrollers and processors featuring AI accelerators from multiple semiconductor providers. The development platform includes a comprehensive set of tools and features for data collection and preparation, model training, deployment and monitoring — all with an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface requiring little or no code at all. The platform enables developers to build systems for various applications such as asset tracking and monitoring, manufacturing, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance systems that use various AI capabilities, including computer vision, time-series data, audio events and speech recognition.
Qualcomm Technologies anticipates providing developers on Edge Impulse’s platform with the capability to target Qualcomm Dragonwing™ processors, which offer superior on-device AI inferencing, computer vision, graphics, and processing capabilities. Integration with Qualcomm® AI Hub further optimises the performance of AI models for Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms, resulting in a peak increase of up to 4x in inference performance, along with a reduction in model size and memory usage. Edge Impulse currently supports Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors and is set to introduce support for additional Dragonwing processors aimed at industrial and embedded IoT applications.
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