Qualcomm Inc (QCOM) Give Their Snapdragon 820 Chip Deep Learning

Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) is bringing neural networks to its Snapdragon 820 chips. The chipmaker has announced that it will be shipping out software development kits later in 2016 giving its chips some new smart features. Qualcomm is making use of its 820 system on a chip's "heterogeneous compute capabilities" with its Qualcomm Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine built atop of the company's Zeroth Machine Intelligence Platform. Developers can use the SDK to turn Qualcomm's chip into a deep learning machine on which to develop and compile neural network models. The potential applications for portable deep learning in mobile devices are inexhaustible.