Qualcomm Stakes Beachhead In Artificial Intelligence With Foxconn Gloria AI Edge Box

When most folks think of Qualcomm, the first technologies that likely come to mind are the company's industry-leading mobile platform system-on-chips for smartphones, as well as the company's end-to-end 5G connectivity solutions. However, whether you consider applications like image recognition, speech input, natural language translation or recommendation engines, modern smartphone platforms typically require a lot of artificial intelligence (AI) processing horsepower as well. As such, after years of developing silicon and software platform solutions for mobile AI applications, it stands to reason that Qualcomm has an opportunity to bring its AI accelerator technology to other intelligent edge devices and the cloud. And that's just what's happening with Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 inference accelerator portfolio, as evidenced by the company's recent joint announcement with Foxconn, one of the largest electronics contract manufacturers and ODMs in the world. Foxconn's Industrial Internet division has launched a new AI-enabled machine vision platform called Gloria.