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.

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About Mitch

Mitch Solomon

President

Mitch has spent years supporting senior leaders of operational and industrial technology companies as well as private equity investors that participate in the space.  He is an active member of the Technology and Innovation Council at Graham Partners, a leading industrial technology focused private equity firm, and serves on the advisory boards of OptConnect (a top IoT connectivity provider) and DecisionPoint (a rapidly growing operational technology systems integrator).  Mitch has worked closely with a wide range of industrial technology clients on a diverse array of growth opportunities and challenges including applications of AI, c-suite recruiting, strategic planning, new market identification and entry, product strategy, competitive positioning, revenue retention, value proposition identification and messaging, sales strategy and execution, and board presentations. Mitch holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.