Qualcomm debuted two new processors this month, its latest step toward integrating intelligence into seemingly everything.<\/p>\n
The Q-2390 and IQ-2390, which were unveiled Sept. 1, fall under the company\u2019s Internet of Things, or IoT, business \u2014 one of Qualcomm\u2019s fastest-growing sectors \u2014 building hardware and software that make things like robots, buildings, cameras and doorbells \u201csmart.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Q-2390 is aimed at commercial and consumer IoT devices \u2014 things like retail kiosks, smart appliances, access control systems, home robots and enterprise terminals.<\/p>\n
The IQ-2390 targets industrial applications \u2014 machine vision, building automation, energy management and industrial controllers.<\/p>\n
Casey Laris, chief technology officer of San Diego robotics company Tactus AI, discussed his company\u2019s demand for this kind of computing power to run its humanoid lab assistant, named Elsie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dragonwing chips should, in theory, be a nice fit for touch, fingers, joints \u2014 humanoid sensing in general, really,\u201d Laris said. \u201cThe coming wave of physical AI relies on cost-effective but still reliable ways for the robot software to know what\u2019s happening in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s Qualcomm\u2019s specialty, as the San Diego chipmaker has made billions of dollars creating low-power processors for smartphones. But after Apple cut ties, Qualcomm has moved to diversify its chipmaking strategy, which notably includes its Dragonwing IoT line.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter of 2026, IoT revenue reached $1.83 billion, a 9% increase year-over-year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have tremendous expertise in high performance and low power,\u201d Qualcomm Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer Akash Palkhiwala said at a Goldman Sachs investor summit in San Francisco earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qualcomm debuted two new processors this month, its latest step toward integrating intelligence into seemingly everything. The Q-2390…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[387,181,74,76,75,1970,1696],"class_list":["post-461003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-business","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-technology","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}