Qualcomm launches new suite of AI-based solutions for building video conferencing products

US chipmaker Qualcomm today launched a new suite of video collaboration solutions called the Qualcomm Video Collaboration Platform. The platform offers AI-based solutions allowing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to design and develop video conferencing products across enterprise, healthcare, educational, and home environments.

The platform aims to be a one-stop solution for hardware and software features tailored for video conferencing for customers to build a wide variety of video conferencing products, from enterprise video collaboration systems and huddle room systems to digital whiteboards, to touch controllers and personal devices for the home.

The Qualcomm Video Collaboration platform offers three video collaboration solutions — VC5 for enterprise environments, VC3 for huddle room systems and video conferencing cameras, and VC1 for high-quality video conferencing. The three AI platforms have support for Android and Linux and can customise video conferencing products across diverse environments.

“The Qualcomm Video Collaboration Platform — and Qualcomm Technologies as a whole — offers our customers one-stop for the technologies they need to develop a variety of different types of conference devices,” said Dev Singh, vice president of building, enterprise and industrial automation, Qualcomm Technologies. Companies like Lenovo, AmTran, Microsoft, and Logitech have partnered with Qualcomm to leveraging this suite of solutions.

This platform is expected to support advanced video, speech, and text capabilities powered by generative AI. In such cases, collaboration devices with dedicated  hardware support for on-chip AI acceleration split the workload between cloud and edge for better optimisation.

In February, the company announced QCS8250 Video Collaboration Reference Design platform. It is an all-in-one hardware and software video collaboration solution for virtual meetings. It provides on-device AI, and high quality camera and audio to support unified communications applications.