Technologies and solutions for intelligent industries
Innovative Platform Series from Qualcomm - The new age of intelligent industry begins with IQ6, IQ8 and IQ9
Each industry faces its individual variety of functional, economic, and organizational challenges – innovation in technology is the key to creating functional solutions for a new era of intelligent industries. With the establishment of advanced automation, IoT, AI, and powerful processing, innovation in technology proves to be the most efficient response to the ever-evolving demand for more economical, intelligent, and dynamic production methods as well as optimized processes in the industrial field. Therefore, the development of unprecedentedly high-performing, innovative technological solutions is essential to facilitate business’ development and success in the dynamic industrial branch.
Our long-time partner and global innovation leader Qualcomm Technologies now introduces a new product portfolio for the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable industrial use-cases and create unprecedentedly functional edge AI solutions with intelligent computing across a variety of industries. The new industrial-grade Qualcomm IQ Chip series is designed to facilitate and streamline the development of intelligent industrial solutions to improve operations. With integrated safety features and a wide temperature range, the IQ chipsets can be used in the most challenging environments, such as warehouses, productions halls, or even outdoors.
Industrial intelligence in a wide range of areas
The IQ chip set series are the latest high-performance industrial-grade platforms for developers to facilitate a more intelligent and connected creation of next-generation Edge AI solutions for industrial applications. Qualcomm’s IQ6, IQ8, and IQ9 series platforms contribute largely to Qualcomm’s industrial IoT Solutions Framework, aiming to provide a high-performing composition of chipsets, operating systems, software, reference designs, and extensive partner networks for a convenient integration of edge AI into connected devices in an industrial context.
Advantages of Qualcomm IQ Series
Supporting a variety of operating systems such as Linux, Ubuntu and many more, the Qualcomm IQ Series platforms offer developers the freedom to use their preferred system and subsequently simplify their work on next-generation industrial devices. The chips’ developer friendly design, longevity, power-efficiency, and intelligent high-performance computing abilities provide the perfect base to create innovative IoT solutions for industrial use cases to counter demanding workloads and challenging environments.
INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS FOR INDUSTRY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Our well-established network of carefully selected partners and our comprehensive portfolio of the latest technologies and components allow for the seamless integration and development of customized partial and complete solutions for industrial applications.
These include IoT Devices (i.e. smart sensors, gateways, and wearable devices), robotics applications (i.e. autonomous robots, drones), machine vision solutions (cameras, scanners, and inspection systems), industrial automation applications (systems for factory automation, process control, and predictive maintenance) as well as further use cases in smart city concepts (i.e. infrastructure monitoring, traffic management, and environmental sensing).
By pairing Qualcomm’s new IQ chipsets with other fitting components from our portfolio, Atlantik Elektronik can help with creating smart solutions for industrial automation, devices, robotics, machine vision, or adding a new level of industrial intelligence to smart city concepts – our team provides the expertise and experience to realize high-performing solutions for industrial applications along the entire value chain.
Customized integration with Qualcomm IQ Series and high-end components
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IQ9 Series Platform
Manufacturer: Qualcomm
The Qualcomm IQ9 Series Platform, featuring a Kryo Gen 6 CPU with all eight high-performance cores and a Qualcomm Adreno 663 GPU, is the most powerful of the IQ series. With built-in safety mechanisms and exceptional design flexibility for edge computing and power-efficient operations in extreme environments, it provides an incomparable up to 100 TOPS AI performance for demanding industrial applications. It can run Llama2 13 billion parameter models, generating about 12 tokens per second.
IQ8 Series Platform
Manufacturer: Qualcomm
The Qualcomm IQ8 Series Platform, featuring a Kryo Gen 6 CPU, pairing four high-performance cores with four efficiency cores, and a Qualcomm Adreno 663 GPU, is the second variation of the IQ series. Thanks to built-in safety mechanisms and high design flexibility for edge computing and power-efficient operations, it is suitable for use in extreme environments. It reaches up to 40 TOPS of AI performance and can also run Llama2 13 billion parameter models, generating about nine tokens per second.
IQ6 Series Platform
Manufacturer: Qualcomm
The Qualcomm IQ6 Series Platform is the third of the IQ series. It features a Kryo Gen 4 CPU delivering exceptional efficiency with two high-performance cores and six efficiency cores as well as a Qualcomm Adreno 612 GPU. IQ6 enables on-device AI workload processing and supports a rich array of input and output interfaces, incl. Wi-Fi, PCIe, ethernet, and USB.
Rubik Pi
Manufacturer: Thundercomm
RUBIK Pi is a lightweight development board built on the Qualcomm QCS6490 platform. It is the first Pi designed specifically for developers using Qualcomm AI technologies and supports various operating systems, incl. Android, Linux, and LU. SDKs from Thundercomm enhance the developer experience. With impressive AI capabilities of 12.5 TOPS, the QCS6490 can be paired with the Qualcomm AI Hub, allowing developers to explore the advancements of AI firsthand.
Linux Stack
Hersteller: Qualcomm
Designed specifically for Qualcomm Technologies' IoT platforms, the Qualcomm Linux software stack provides support for all processor cores, subsystems and components within the platform. Initially starting with the QCS6490 processor, the package enables a unified Linux distribution with essential components such as the Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel, enabling a seamless developer experience.