The News: Qualcomm has unveiled its Qualcomm AI Stack portfolio of software tools to make it easier for OEMs and developers to build AI applications for a wide range of devices that run on Qualcomm chips. The Qualcomm AI Stack is designed to unleash the AI power of Connected Intelligent Edge devices, including smartphones, IoT, automotive, XR, cloud, and mobile …
Intel Foundry Services Fully Launches IFS Accelerator to Speed Up Foundry Customer Benefits
Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services Accelerator is unveiled to bring together design ecosystem partners to deliver a complete spectrum of solutions and services for customers’ design requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how IFA Accelerator combines EDA, IP, and design service capabilities can spur customer silicon innovation and further solidifies Intel’s ability to use its own foundry resources to strengthen its competitive prospects against key rivals like AMD and NVIDIA who must rely on third-party foundries.
Lenovo Harnesses AI at the Edge with ThinkEdge SE450 Launch
Lenovo introduces the ThinkEdge SE450 with new compact, ruggedized and quiet design that aims to advance AI-driven business insights, performance, scaling flexibility, and security across the intelligent edge, presenting a new competitive challenge to key rivals HPE and Dell. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the purpose-designed Lenovo ThinkEdge SE450 is well-suited for the distinct demands of today’s intelligent edge environments and augment edge AI capabilities for key market verticals such as telecom, smart cities, manufacturing, and retail.
Qualcomm and Google Cloud Collaborate on Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to Power Connected Intelligent Edge
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard highlights the just-announced Qualcomm-Google Cloud partnership aimed at accelerating neural network development for the connected intelligent edge. Blanchard explains how the partnership, which focuses on neural architecture search and brings Google Cloud’s Vertex AI NAS to Qualcomm’s powerful new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform, is expected to scale to high-growth mobile-adjacent segments like IoT, Automotive, and XR, essentially representing a significant forward leap in the development of the next fundamental technology layer: the connected intelligent edge. Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform is the first SOC to do this.