Qualcomm unveils AI chips for PCs, cars, smart homes and enterprises

Qualcomm has unveiled AI technologies and collaborations for PCs, cars, smart homes and enterprises at CES 2025.

At the major tech trade show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm Technologies demonstrated how it is using AI capabilities in its chips to drive the transformation of user experience across various device categories, including PCs, cars , smart homes and into enterprises.

The company unveiled the Snapdragon X platform, the fourth platform in its high-performance PC portfolio, the Snapdragon X Series, bringing industry-leading performance, multi-day battery life, and leadership AI to more of the Windows ecosystem. Qualcomm has talked about how its processors are making a big catch from the competitors AMD and Intel based on x86 through better efficiency. Qualcomm's neural processing unit scores around 45 TOPS, a key benchmark for AI PCs.

In addition, Qualcomm Technologies showed continued traction of the Snapdragon X series, with more than 60 designs in production or development and more than 100 expected by 2026.

Snapdragon for cars

Qualcomm demoed chips that expand its automotive cooperation. It is working with Alpine, Amazon, Leapmotor, Mobis, Royal Enfield, and Sony Honda Mobility, which look to Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions to power in-cabin and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Qualcomm also announced a continued push for its Snapdragon Elite-level platforms for cars,
highlights his work with Desay, Garmin, and Panasonic for the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite. Throughout the show, Qualcomm will demonstrate its overall approach to improving comfort and focusing on safety with demonstrations of the ability to converge AI, multimodal context awareness, and cloud.
established services.

Attendees will also get a first look at the new Snapdragon Ride Platform with an integrated automated driving software stack and system definition developed together with BMW.

Smart home 2.0

The La Jolla, California-based company also showcased new AI bots integrated into appliances, advanced smart TVs, humanoid robots, and more. Qualcomm considers 2025 to be the start of “Smart Home 2.0,” with major advances coming from integrating generational AI into products at the edge. The company had devices with high-powered processors capable of handling complex AI tasks independently, increasing user interaction and device functionality.

And he announced the next evolution of the Qualcomm Aware Platform, a cloud-based service that empowers enterprises to equip their devices with location, visibility and search capabilities to make it possible.
developing IoT solutions that meet the specific needs and challenges of consumers and businesses
across a wide range of industries, including logistics, retail, energy, smart home, robotics and more.

Qualcomm also highlighted the Qualcomm AI On-Prem Device Solution, a desktop or wall-mounted hardware solution, and the Qualcomm Cloud AI Inference Suite, a set of software and services for AI inference from the edge to a cloud The combination of these new offerings enables small and medium businesses, enterprises and business organizations to run custom and off-the-shelf AI applications on their premises, including generational workloads. Running AI decisioning on premises can provide significant savings in operating costs and total cost of ownership, compared to the cost of leasing third-party AI infrastructure.

The Qualcomm Booth will be at #5000 in the LVCC West Hall with demos.