Qualcomm's Vision Intelligence IoT Platform Features an AI Engine

Qualcomm is putting its processing muscle behind a new Internet of Things (IoT) platform called Vision Intelligence. What makes this family of system-on-chips (SoC) special, according to the chipset giant, is that it uses an artificial intelligence (AI) engine (coupled with a heterogeneous compute architecture and an ARM-based CPU) to make it possible to do processing at the network edge instead of in the cloud. "This is what customers have been asking for," said Joseph Bousaba, Qualcomm's vice president of product management. "They want advanced capabilities like AI or machine learning, but they want it at the edge. Because of the low latency and the responsiveness, the device is much faster."