Qualcomm QCM8550 and Qualcomm QCS8550 Processors for compute-intensive applications

Looking to expand your Internet of Things (IoT) solutions along with increased performance of your most compute-intensive applications? Introducing the new, top-of-the-line Qualcomm QCM8550 and Qualcomm QCS8550 Processors.

QCM8550 and QCS8550 deliver robust compute power, extreme Edge artificial intelligence (AI) processing, Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, and vivid graphics and video for performance-heavy IoT applications. Both are made for manufacturers and designers of IoT products that demand our highest performance in a single processor. Ideal use cases include, but are not limited to:

• Autonomous mobile robots: Implement simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM), with a richer sensor set and AI at the network edge
• Industrial drones: Run multiple cameras with the real-time AI processing needed for drones
• Edge AI devices: Enable multiple concurrent machine learning modules per stream
• Video collaboration: Premium performance for delivering some of the most engaging meeting experiences using video and audio AI, multiple high-resolution cameras and abundant compute and graphics processing unit (GPU) power
• Video transcoding: Convert live video to multiple formats simultaneously — especially useful for short video applications
• Cloud gaming: Run multiple cloud-based games concurrently with visually richer game content and deeper player engagement
• Camera applications: Build cameras for sports/action, security, automobile dashes and multi-camera with improved IQ and cognitive ISP
• Retail: Apply AI to reduce friction in retail scenarios like unattended smart carts, smart cameras, on-shelf product identification and bar codes

Enterprise-level performance

QCM8550 and QCS8550 processors are built for demanding enterprise applications, including your most compute-intensive multimedia, Edge AI, and retail use cases. The system on chip (SoC) enables next-generation features and delivers best-in-class performance.

This includes:

• Qualcomm Kryo central processing unit (CPU), which delivers up to 1.5 times the compute power of previous Kryo CPUs
• Qualcomm Adreno GPU, which provides three times the performance of our previous Adreno GPUs, allowing mobile games to take advantage of hardware-accelerated ray tracing. It also:
  • Concurrently handles multiple video sessions of different formats and resolutions
  • Has a multiple display interface available for rendering contents on different panels simultaneously with Ultra High Definition (UHD) resolutions
• The 8th-generation Qualcomm AI Engine, which powers AI applications with up to 10 times the performance of previous engines
• Premium, with always-on audio that runs on dual-embedded neural processing units (eNPU) that provide more than 300 giga-operations per second (GOPs), plus spatial audio with headtracking
• Qualcomm Spectra 18-bit triple cognitive image signal processor (ISP), which is our first AI-powered camera processor. This also:
  • Powers real-time semantic segmentation, multiple camera pipelines for high-end imaging, and generates vivid pictures with zoom, which is perfect for auto-framing
  • Has low-power, always-on cameras which enable increased autonomous operations and controls, improve overall IQ, and higher compute per channel
• Enterprise-grade security capability through our Trust Management Engineand Qualcomm Type-1 Hypervisor
• Delivery of speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps through 5G and is engineered for Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)

All of the above features create ideal scenarios for application in transcoding, gaming, video collaboration, multi-camera and AI-box use cases.