Open source development fosters our innovation and allows us to collaborate and contribute to the greater developer community.
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. sponsors and contributes to dozens of open source communities and projects. We also host our own open source projects. The collaborative nature of open source is key to our ongoing diversification and growth across industries, standards, and technological areas, at the same time enhancing support and improving efficiency for our own developer communities.
Qualcomm engages in Open Source activities solely through its subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
Benefits
Support
Open and well-established technology provides familiar and trusted solutions optimized for Qualcomm Technologies hardware.
Community Participation
We contribute to upstream projects so that the wider community can benefit from our research and development.
Customizations
Driving toward open and free access to source code lets developers further customize solutions – whether it be for Qualcomm Technologies or third-party hardware.
Stronger Developer Experiences
Developers gain the latest innovations and optimizations to fully utilize Qualcomm Technologies solutions.
Supported Community Projects
Qualcomm Technologies sponsors and contributes to open source developer communities that drive collaboration. Below are examples of the community projects that we support.
Linux Foundation Networking
Foundational projects for network infrastructure and services.
Contribution: Platinum Member
Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel, with over 10,000 contributions from our engineers over the past 15 years, is found in a vast range of devices built with Qualcomm® technology.
Contribution: Platinum Member
OpenChain
Standards for trusted and consistent process management of open source projects.
Contribution: Platinum Member
OpenAIRInterface
Development and oversight community for RAN and CN technologies.
Strategic LF Networking Member
RISC-V
Specifications for the RISC-V open-standard instruction set.
Contribution: Platinum Member
Yocto Project
Collaborative project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture.
Contribution: Platinum Member
Zephyr
Highly modular and scalable RTOS with extensive support for a diverse range of processor architectures, devices, and protocol stacks.
Strategic LF Networking Member
LLVM
C/C++ compiler toolchain with optimizations for Snapdragon.
Robot Operating System
A set of software libraries and tools that help you build robotics applications.
TianoCore EDK II
Open source reference implementation, self-certification test suite (SCT), and platform ports for the UEFI and PI boot firmware specifications.
Qualcomm Hosted Projects
Qualcomm Technologies helps developers drive innovation through community hosted projects across multiple technologies. These are examples that include open source projects, as well as samples, tools, and SDKs that support developer experiences on Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms.
AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET)
A library that provides advanced model quantization techniques that enable ML models to run efficiently on neural processing units.
Qualcomm® AI Hub Apps
Sample apps and tutorials to help deploy machine learning models on Qualcomm Technologies’ SoCs.
Qualcomm AI Hub Models
State-of-the-art machine learning models optimized for deployment on Qualcomm Technologies’ SoCs.
Qualcomm® Cloud AI SDK
Models, tutorials, and samples for AI processing in the cloud using the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100.
Qualcomm® Linux® Software Stack
A suite of software, tools, and resources to develop IoT applications and products, with a focus on advanced, accelerated AI.
Resources
Running RetroPie on Imola with Containers
Upstream AI using FastRPC
Upstream Linux on Particle Tachyon
Linux on Snapdragon Laptops
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YouTube channel
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GitHub community
Open-source software that leverages the unique capabilities of today's mobile devices
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Qualcomm engages in open source activities solely through its subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
