RESEARCH PAPER: Qualcomm’s New Distributed Intelligence Platform

By Patrick Moorhead, Karl Freund - January 14, 2020

Qualcomm has been innovating artificial intelligence (AI) features for years in their Snapdragon products, and the next generation Snapdragon 865 & 765 5G Mobile Platform, due in 2020, are designed to take AI performance to the next level and enable distributed intelligence over 5G wireless. AI is becoming ubiquitous on smartphones, and although many consumers may be unaware their phones are running AI, it is becoming indispensable in primary applications such as photography, voice recognition, extended reality, gaming and even real-time spoken language translation. As a result, the battle for smartphone market share is shifting from displays to AI, and Qualcomm intends to extend its lead with these new fast chips and software.

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Distributed Intelligence Begins With A Great Smartphone
Introducing The New Snapdragon Family
Software To Make It All Work
A Few Interesting Examples
Distributed Intelligence Becomes A Reality
Conclusions
Figure 1: Qualcomm's Vision For Distributed
Figure 2: The Snapdragon 865 Features
Figure 3: Accelerators To Optimize Performance
Figure 4: Qualcomm's Hardware And Software Development Suite
Figure 5: Snapdragon 865 AI Performance Benchmarks
Figure 6: Loom.ai Avatar Demonstration

Companies Cited:

ARM
Google
Qualcomm
Snap, Inc.

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Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights) in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.