{"slug": "qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors", "title": "Qualcomm aims to make everything smart with these new processors", "summary": "Qualcomm unveiled the Q-2390 and IQ-2390 processors on Sept. 1, expanding its Dragonwing Internet of Things line to bring intelligence to commercial, consumer and industrial devices. The San Diego chipmaker reported IoT revenue of $1.83 billion in the third quarter of 2026, a 9% increase year-over-year, as it diversifies beyond smartphones after Apple cut ties. Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkhiwala cited the company's \"tremendous expertise in high performance and low power\" at a Goldman Sachs investor summit in San Francisco.", "body_md": "**Getting your**\n\n[Trinity Audio](//trinityaudio.ai)player ready...\nQualcomm debuted two new processors this month, its latest step toward integrating intelligence into seemingly everything.\n\nThe Q-2390 and IQ-2390, which were unveiled Sept. 1, fall under the company’s Internet of Things, or IoT, business — one of Qualcomm’s fastest-growing sectors — building hardware and software that make things like robots, buildings, cameras and doorbells “smart.”\n\nThe Q-2390 is aimed at commercial and consumer IoT devices — things like retail kiosks, smart appliances, access control systems, home robots and enterprise terminals.\n\nThe IQ-2390 targets industrial applications — machine vision, building automation, energy management and industrial controllers.\n\nCasey Laris, chief technology officer of San Diego robotics company Tactus AI, discussed his company’s demand for this kind of computing power to run its humanoid lab assistant, named Elsie.\n\n“The Dragonwing chips should, in theory, be a nice fit for touch, fingers, joints — humanoid sensing in general, really,” Laris said. “The coming wave of physical AI relies on cost-effective but still reliable ways for the robot software to know what’s happening in the real world.”\n\nThat’s Qualcomm’s 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.\n\nIn the third quarter of 2026, IoT revenue reached $1.83 billion, a 9% increase year-over-year.\n\n“We have tremendous expertise in high performance and low power,” Qualcomm Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer Akash Palkhiwala said at a Goldman Sachs investor summit in San Francisco earlier this week.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors", "canonical_source": "https://www.ocregister.com/2026/09/15/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors/", "published_at": "2026-09-15 14:30:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 14:50:41.606990+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "robotics"], "entities": ["Qualcomm", "Q-2390", "IQ-2390", "Dragonwing", "Akash Palkhiwala", "Apple", "Tactus AI", "Casey Laris"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qualcomm-aims-to-make-everything-smart-with-these-new-processors.jsonld"}}