Qualcomm Incorporated News
Latest Qualcomm Incorporated news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Qualcomm Incorporated
Qualcomm Incorporated is a fabless semiconductor and wireless technology company that designs chips and licenses patents for mobile, computing, automotive, and IoT devices. It is best known for its Snapdragon mobile processors and its foundational patents in CDMA, WCDMA, and 5G cellular technology, which generate substantial licensing revenue through its QTL division alongside chip sales through QCT.
Through its Dragonwing brand (formerly Qualcomm IoT/industrial processors), the company sells system-on-chip platforms such as the IQ6, IQ8, IQ9, IQ-X, and IQ10 series aimed at industrial automation, edge AI, and robotics, including autonomous mobile robots, collaborative robots, and humanoid robots. In 2026 Qualcomm introduced the Dragonwing IQ10 Robotics Reference Design, a full-stack compute, sensing, and software platform for industrial and humanoid robots, and has positioned its processors to power robots from companies including Booster Robotics.
Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 mobile platforms, built on a 2nm process, were announced in September 2026 at Snapdragon Summit. The company also develops AI inference software stacks (Qualcomm AI Engine, Qualcomm AI Hub) used to deploy on-device AI models across its chip portfolio.
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Products by Qualcomm Incorporated
- Dragonwing IQ-8275 (Component, 2024) — An octa-core system-on-chip with up to 40 TOPS of AI acceleration aimed at industrial robots, machine vision, and autonomous mobile robots.
- Dragonwing IQ10 Series (Component, 2026) — A premium robotics processor series providing up to 700 TOPS of on-device AI performance for humanoid robots and advanced AMRs.
- Dragonwing IQ10 Robotics Reference Design (Hardware, 2026) — A deployment-ready full-stack hardware and software reference platform combining compute, cameras, LiDAR, and IMU sensing for industrial robots.
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (Component, 2026) — A 2nm flagship smartphone system-on-chip announced in September 2026 featuring Qualcomm's Oryon CPU.
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (Component, 2026) — A higher-clocked variant of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 flagship mobile platform announced in September 2026.
Latest Qualcomm Incorporated news
- PrismML Ports 1-Bit Bonsai LLM To Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Glasses — PrismML, an AI lab founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica, unveiled a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 build of its 2B-pa...
- Arduino unveils VENTUNO Q, a 40-TOPS dual-brain robotics board — Arduino, now a Qualcomm subsidiary, opened preorders for the VENTUNO Q — a dual-brain single-board computer that pairs a 40-TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing I...
- Meta Bets $1,300 On A VR Headset And Six New AI-Glasses SKUs — At Meta Connect 2026, Zuckerberg unveiled a $1,300 tethered VR headset, a $449 Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, $349 audio-only glasses and a Muse Charm keychain a...
- Qualcomm Buys PickNik Robotics To Own The Physical-AI Manipulation Stack — Qualcomm is acquiring MoveIt developer PickNik Robotics to bolt an open-source manipulation stack onto its Dragonwing physical-AI platform.
- D-Robotics Closes $400M Series C To Build The 'Brain For Every Robot' — Hong Kong-based D-Robotics closed a $400 million Series C led by a global internet giant, funding a full-stack Sunrise chip and RDK developer platform...
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 With 30B-Parameter On-Device AI — At Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-binned Extreme variant, both on a 2nm node and tuned for on-dev...
- Cornelis Networks Raises $205M And Teams With Qualcomm To Attack Nvidia's AI Networking Lock-In — Intel-spinout Cornelis Networks closed a $205M round led by IAG Capital Partners, unveiled Active Compute Fabric — a programmable, in-fabric AI networ...
- NEURA Robotics Taps Italy’s SECO for European Compute Modules Behind 4NE1 Humanoid — NEURA Robotics and SECO will co-design Qualcomm Dragonwing-based compute modules for the 4NE1 humanoid and open a NEURA Gym training hub in Italy.
- Qualcomm And Amazon Ink Multi-Generation Custom AI Chip Deal, $4B AWS Warrant — Qualcomm and Amazon on September 8 unveiled a multi-generation custom AI inference silicon and 1.6T optical partnership for AWS, with a warrant lettin...
- NEURA Robotics And SECO Partner To Build Physical AI Compute Modules In Europe — NEURA Robotics and Italian embedded-computing group SECO announced a strategic partnership on September 7 2026 to design and manufacture Qualcomm Drag...
- NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger used his September 5 IFA 2026 keynote to pitch a European physical-AI ecosystem built around the 4NE1 humanoid and the...
- Ultrahuman Raises $70M Series C Led By Qualcomm Ventures To Turn Smart Rings Into Computers — Bengaluru smart-ring maker Ultrahuman has raised $70 million led by Qualcomm Ventures at a $365 million valuation and will co-develop a Qualcomm-power...
- Vietnam Pushes Qualcomm, Samsung To Expand AI, Chip And Robotics Investment — Vietnamese President To Lam met the CEOs of Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics to press both companies to deepen AI, semiconductor, robotics and data-ce...
- Xiaomi Debuts 3nm Xring O3 With LPDDR6, Plus AI and Auto-Driving Chips — Xiaomi's second-generation flagship SoC arrives on TSMC's 3nm N3P with 24 billion transistors, LPDDR6 support and 200 TOPS of AI, alongside a stacked...
- Neura Robotics Bags Record $1.4B Series C Led By Tether For Physical AI — German cognitive robotics firm NEURA Robotics closed a Series C of up to $1.4 billion — the largest ever for a full-stack robotics company — with Teth...
- Qualcomm Closes $3.9B Modular Buy, Lattner Becomes EVP Of AI Software — Qualcomm has completed its all-stock acquisition of AI-native software firm Modular, adding the Mojo language, MAX inference platform and Modular Clou...
- Microchip Signs Deal To Buy Israeli Edge-AI Chipmaker Hailo For Its Robotics And Vision Push — Chandler-based Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tel Aviv edge AI chipmaker Hailo, adding the Hailo-8, Hailo-10H and Hailo...
- TSMC To Lift Chip Prices Up To 10% From 2027, HPC Orders Face Extra 10-15% Surcharge — TSMC has told Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and other lead customers it will raise wafer prices by 5-10% across advanced and mature nodes starting Janu...
- Wetour Robotics Joins Qualcomm Partner Network To Scale Orchestra Physical AI — Austin-based wearable robotics firm Wetour Robotics has joined the Qualcomm Partner Network, gaining access to Dragonwing silicon and Qualcomm's ecosy...
- Wetour Robotics Lands $20M North American Orchestra Warehouse Deal — Nasdaq-listed Wetour Robotics has signed a definitive 24-month framework worth up to US$20 million to roll out its Orchestra physical AI stack, includ...