LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm Technologies QCOM -2.18%↓ expanded its portfolio of Industrial and Embedded IoT (IE-IoT) that included the launch of Dragonwing Q-series processors another other services at CES 2026. The company has reorganized its IE-IoT business to provide edge compute and AI solutions across multiple sectors.
Suri Maddhula, vice president of product management for Qualcomm’s IoT Business, highlighted the company’s aggressive push into edge AI and IoT, announcing the Dragonwing Q-8750 and Q-7790 processors designed to deliver on-device intelligence across drones, smart home appliances, cameras and other embedded devices.
Maddhula emphasized Qualcomm’s four recent acquisitions to accelerate development and address the long-tail IoT market: EnginePulse (now Edge Impulse) for streamlined MLOps and one-click model deployment to chipsets; Arduino, a platform with 33 million annual IDE downloads, to boost developer accessibility and release the AI-capable Arduino UNO Q board; Focus.AI for end-to-end video analytics that processes events on the edge while sending minimal metadata to the cloud; and OriginDX (Augentix) to enhance camera chipset integration for comprehensive video solutions across verticals like security, retail, oil and gas, and construction.
Maddhula described these moves as filling portfolio gaps for end-to-end solutions and improved developer experiences, with Arduino generating significant media attention due to its massive community. He expressed optimism about Qualcomm’s trajectory in creating new product categories, such as industry gateways for oil and gas, while driving broader adoption through accessibility and user-centric innovation in the rapidly evolving edge AI landscape.
 that included the launch of Dragonwing Q-series processors another other services at CES 2026. The company has reorganized its IE-IoT business to provide edge compute and AI solutions across multiple sectors.){kind=link}