Hailo Technologies vs Qualcomm

Hailo Technologies — Hardware · Acquired · $340M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Qualcomm — Hardware · Public · $174.9B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Hailo-10H and Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares AI compute hardware, accelerator silicon and model inference.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship developer tool and hardware.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldHailo TechnologiesQualcomm
Size$340M raised$174.9B mkt cap different basis
Employees—52,000
Founded20171985 32 yrs earlier
StatusAcquiredPublic
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerDeveloper tool, HardwareDeveloper tool, Hardware, Platform
HeadquartersTel Aviv, IsraelSan Diego, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareModel inference

Not verified for Qualcomm · 1

Video analytics

Recorded for Hailo Technologies. Qualcomm’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Hailo Technologies · 3

Evaluation and observabilityModel hostingKnowledge retrieval

Recorded for Qualcomm. Hailo Technologies’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Hailo Technologies

Developer tool

Hailo AI Software SuiteDeveloper tool

Compiler, runtime and model zoo that convert a trained model to run on Hailo silicon.

Hardware

Hailo AI acceleratorsHardware

Edge AI processors that run vision and language models on the device rather than in a data centre.

Hailo-10HHardware

Edge AI accelerator for on-device generative AI (LLM/VLM), 40 TOPS INT4, industrial and automotive grades available.

Hailo-15Hardware

AI vision processor for on-camera image processing at the edge.

Hailo-8Hardware

Edge AI accelerator chip (26 TOPS) with fully integrated on-die memory, requiring no external DRAM.

Qualcomm

Developer tool

Qualcomm AI HubDeveloper tool

A developer platform for optimising, benchmarking and deploying on-device AI models against 300+ pre-optimised models and 50+ real Qualcomm devices in the cloud.

Hardware

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 UltraHardware

A PCIe AI inference accelerator card with up to 870 TOPS INT8 and 128GB of memory, built for generative AI and LLM inference in the data centre.

Qualcomm Dragonfly AI200Hardware

Rack-scale data-centre inference accelerator carrying 768 GB of LPDDR per card, announced October 2025 with commercial availability expected in 2026.

Qualcomm Dragonfly AI250Hardware

A second-generation rack-scale AI inference platform using Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) Gen 1 for memory-bound agentic inference.

Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300Hardware

A third-generation rack-scale AI inference platform using Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) Gen 2 for hyperscale LLM and agentic deployments.

Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-2390Hardware

Embedded edge-AI processor in early access; part of Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ2 series for IoT.

Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 SeriesHardware

Embedded IoT/edge-AI processor family, distinct from the Dragonfly AI200/250/300 data-centre accelerator line; an IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit is purchasable through Qualcomm's developer hardware section.

SnapdragonHardware

Mobile and PC processor family whose on-device AI engine runs models locally on phones, laptops and cars.

Snapdragon X SeriesHardware

A family of Snapdragon compute platforms for Windows PCs (X, X2 Elite, X2 Plus) sold on NPU-accelerated on-device AI performance.

No counterpart

Qualcomm sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Hailo Technologies yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Qualcomm AI Inference SuitePlatform

A cloud and on-premises inference platform offering an SDK, OpenAI-compatible APIs and ready-made chat, RAG, image and code applications on top of Qualcomm's AI accelerators.