{"title":"Congatec vs Qualcomm: Compute & controllers compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/congatec-vs-qualcomm","comparison":"Qualcomm ranks 56 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 82; Congatec ranks 72 with 80. Congatec is ahead on deployment and commercials. Qualcomm is ahead on production and firepower. Level on progress, technology, positioning and leverage. Congatec is based in Deggendorf, Germany, Qualcomm in San Diego, United States. Qualcomm: Public. Congatec is named in 0 signals and Qualcomm in 253.","companies":[{"name":"Congatec","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/congatec","city":"Deggendorf","country":"Germany","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"congatec Group GmbH (Deggendorf) designs Computer-on-Modules (COM-HPC, COM Express, SMARC, Qseven) plus aReady. software/hardware building blocks for embedded/edge use in industrial robots, AMRs, cobots, medical devices and automation; it is fabless and ships via contract manufacturers plus a May-25 Kontron production network. On Jul-01-25 it took 96% of Kontron’s JUMPtec COM unit (EUR ~90m 2024 sales) plus 100% of the US and Malaysian module subsidiaries; on Jan-27-26 it opened a Penang engineering centre (23 Kontron-Asia engineers, targeting ~70). Distinguishing point is the standardized COM ecosystem plus pre-integrated hypervisor/OS (Ubuntu Pro, Bosch Rexroth ctrlX OS); 2025 group revenue remains a range (DBAG prelim EUR 169m vs 2024 Konzernabschluss EUR 186.2m).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":72,"score":80,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Congatec is a fabless supplier of embedded computer-on-modules for industrial customers, including robotics maker ANYbotics.","segment":"Compute & controllers","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":0,"facts_total":15},{"name":"Qualcomm","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/qualcomm","city":"San Diego","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Qualcomm (Nasdaq:QCOM) is entering robotics compute with its Dragonwing IQ10 (an 18-core Oryon CPU, up to 700 TOPS) and Robotics Development Platform, positioned against NVIDIA Jetson, with IQ9-based modules already in market via Advantech. It unveiled the IQ10 and platform at CES 2026 with named partners including Figure, KUKA, and Booster, and showed a reference design at Computex, with executives framing robotics as arriving in stages. Robotics revenue is not broken out of the group.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":56,"score":82,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":7,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Qualcomm supplies Dragonwing processors and compute modules that give industrial robots, cognitive robots, vision systems and autonomous-driving platforms on-device AI and control.","segment":"Compute & controllers","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":253,"facts_total":68}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}