Qualcomm making headway in automotive, hybrid AI, IoT

Global advanced wireless company Qualcomm Technologies Inc has diversified beyond mobile devices to the fields of automotive, Internet of Things (IoT) and hybrid artificial intelligence (AI).

“Qualcomm is enabling intelligent computing everywhere beyond smartphones and mobile devices,” said ST Liew, president of Qualcomm Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

According to Qualcomm, the future of AI needs to be hybrid, with AI workloads distributed between the cloud and devices, instead of processing in the cloud alone. Hybrid AI will allow generative AI developers and providers to take advantage of the computing capabilities available in edge devices to reduce costs.

Mr Liew said a hybrid AI architecture, or running AI solely on a device, offers benefits to cost,…