Snapdragon Summit:
Qualcomm Goes All-in on Edge AI

by Joe Abajian, Analyst, and Dan Mandell, Director, with Chris Rommel, EVP

The 2025 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit was fully centered on AI—the promised disruptor that has solidified its place in our personal lives and professional lives. For Qualcomm, the diverse array of AI applications presents an opportunity to blend its success in the mobile device market with its burgeoning business in IoT and embedded. With both its AI development solutions and chipsets, Qualcomm will continue to play a key role in enabling utility-scale edge AI applications. Moving inference closer to the user not only improves latency and responsiveness but also enhances privacy and personalization by leveraging local data, creating the potential for an agentic ecosystem that assists operations or individuals in their everyday lives. This VDC View highlights and analyzes the announced products and features as they relate to embedded and edge computing.