Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard highlights the just-announced Qualcomm-Google Cloud partnership aimed at accelerating neural network development for the connected intelligent edge. Blanchard explains how the partnership, which focuses on neural architecture search and brings Google Cloud’s Vertex AI NAS to Qualcomm’s powerful new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile platform, is expected to scale to high-growth mobile-adjacent segments like IoT, Automotive, and XR, essentially representing a significant forward leap in the development of the next fundamental technology layer: the connected intelligent edge. Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform is the first SOC to do this.
