Qualcomm has announced a new Product Longevity Program for select products in its IoT solutions. Initially, it will cover 16 Qualcomm IoT system-on-chips, enabling customers to design products with a longer lifecycle.
The SoCs included in the long-term product plan will be designed to meet the needs of various industries or enterprises and have corresponding lifecycle designs. These include dynamic sensing street lighting, construction safety, drones, and warehouse management application scenarios, with corresponding lifecycles ranging from 7 years, 10 years, and 15 years.
As new chip products come out and previously launched chips reach the end of their life cycle, Qualcomm said it will continue to update this product catalog and include more chips in long-term product plans to expand its IoT product portfolio.
The long-term product plan aims to help manufacturing and enterprise customers achieve more reliable and durable system-on-chips and extend the life cycle of application products. It also realizes Qualcomm's commitment to provide long-term technical support and demand satisfaction to customers, so that their IoT product portfolio solutions can correspond to longer use time.
“As customer needs continue to evolve, reliable products with long lifecycles are becoming increasingly important,” said Dev Singh, vice president of business development and head of Qualcomm Technologies’ Building, Enterprise and Industrial Automation business. “Long-term product planning ensures the reliability and functionality of Qualcomm Technologies’ products over an extended period of time.”
