{"title":"Qualcomm vs Rebellions: Compute & controllers compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/qualcomm-vs-rebellions","comparison":"Qualcomm ranks 70 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 58; Rebellions ranks 77 with 56. Qualcomm is ahead on production, commercials, positioning and leverage. Rebellions is ahead on deployment and technology. Level on progress and firepower. Qualcomm is based in San Diego, United States, Rebellions in Seongnam, South Korea. Qualcomm: Public. Qualcomm is named in 253 signals and Rebellions in 62.","companies":[{"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":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":70,"score":58,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":1,"commercial":4,"deployment":5,"production":9,"technology":5},"why":"Qualcomm supplies Dragonwing processors for humanoid-robot compute modules, working with NEURA, SECO and other robotics partners as the embedded AI compute layer.","segment":"Compute & controllers","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":253,"facts_total":68},{"name":"Rebellions","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/rebellions","city":"Seongnam","country":"South Korea","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Korea's leading AI inference chip startup (REBEL-Quad chiplet NPU with HBM3E, fabbed at Samsung), merged with SK Telecom's Sapeon, the first direct investment of the National Growth Fund, heading to a Korean IPO.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":77,"score":56,"tier":"watchlist","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":7,"progress":10,"firepower":1,"commercial":3,"deployment":7,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"Rebellions is jointly developing humanoid-robot components and AI systems with NSK, with ATOM-based humanoid robots being tested in manufacturing environments.","segment":"Compute & controllers","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":62,"facts_total":70}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}