Qualcomm and Qt Group Partner to Speed Up Industrial AI Development
Qualcomm and Qt Group are optimizing the Qt framework for Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ chips, a move designed to reduce development time for factory floor and edge AI applications. Qt Group announced the collaboration on March 9.
The Dragonwing IQ series is Qualcomm's system-on-chip built for industrial IoT and edge AI. Qt is a cross-platform application development toolkit that lets developers write code once and deploy it across Windows, Linux, Android, and embedded systems.
What the optimization covers
The two companies will optimize the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), which connects the Qt framework to hardware drivers. This removes performance overhead when executing commands. They're also optimizing the neural processing unit (NPU) that handles AI workloads.
Qualcomm and Qt will provide a pre-configured operating system called Qualcomm Linux, built specifically for the Dragonwing IQ chips and Qt framework. Developers get a ready-to-use environment instead of manually configuring Linux or setting up frameworks themselves.
The Qt framework will run on Qualcomm Linux, Ubuntu for Qualcomm's IoT platform, and standard Ubuntu.
The business case
The partnership targets companies building smart factory devices, including AI-powered robotics. By eliminating setup work, developers can begin building applications immediately after receiving the chips.
"Our collaboration with Qt ensures this SoC delivers a ready-to-run platform for customers and makes it easy to integrate AI models into user experiences," said Anand Venkatesan, senior director at Qualcomm.
Tilak Ramanna, senior vice president at Qt Group, said the collaboration deepens their existing partnership by providing developers with an immediate onboarding environment. "This will help enterprises bring smart factory devices to market faster without technical trial and error," he said.
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