Qualcomm
Qualcomm is expanding its focus beyond smartphones to power on-device AI across a range of devices including wearables, PCs, cars, and data centers. The company has introduced new chips like the Snapdragon Wear Elite and the upcoming AI200 accelerator to enable local AI processing. By shifting AI tasks from the cloud to devices, Qualcomm aims to enhance performance and responsiveness across multiple industries.
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AI is moving off the cloud and onto the devices in your pocket, on your wrist, and in your car. Qualcomm, long synonymous with smartphone chips, wants to power that next phase. The company now makes processors for PCs, cars, smartwatches, smart glasses, and, as of late 2025, data centers, and it is threading AI capabilities through all of them. Its Snapdragon Wear Elite chip for smartwatches, unveiled in March, brings a dedicated neural processor to the wrist. Its AI200 accelerator, shipping later this year, takes the same inference architecture into the server rack. The ambition is to move more AI processing onto the device itself, rather than sending every task back to the cloud.
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