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Qualcomm Arms IoT Devices With Vision Intelligence Platform

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QUALCOMM Incorporated’s (QCOM - Free Report) business subsidiary — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. — recently rolled out its Vision Intelligence Platform in a bid to make Internet of Things (IoT) devices smarter.

Over the last six months, shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock gained 4.2%, in line with the growth recorded by the industry.



Qualcomm’s premium Vision Intelligence Platform will enhance the quality and features of devices like consumer and industrial smart-security cameras, wearable cameras, and virtual reality cameras.

The platform features state-of-the-art system-on-chips (SoCs), including the company’s 10nm Fin Shaped Field Effect Transistor process technology.

These SoCs will assimilate Qualcomm’s Artificial Intelligence Engine and advanced image-signal processor, with assorted compute architecture, comprising vector processor and graphics processing, and Acorn RISC Machine-based multicore Central Processing units.

Notably, the QCS603 and QCS605 SoCs are manufactured to provide powerful computing for on-device machine learning and camera processing, with extraordinary thermal and power efficacy, across various types of IoT applications.

Furthermore, Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence Platform will include machine learning, advanced camera-processing software and computer vision software-development kits.

The company believes its new intelligence platform will be widely appreciated by the manufacturers of IoT devices. Notably, renowned organizations like Keda Communications Ltd. and The Ricoh Company, Ltd. are already planning to build products with Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence Platform.

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