Qualcomm unveils new chips to power smart shopping carts, remote work

Retail tech is emerging as a new sector ripe for digital transformation, and supermarkets are on track to get smart carts that analyze items, deliver digital coupons and enable just-walk-out shopping. — dpa

Qualcomm has been working for years to get its mobile technology into other products besides smartphones — think drones, laptops and smart security cameras.

Those efforts to connect the unconnected — generally called the Internet of Things — have recently started to deliver consequential financial results for Qualcomm, with revenue topping US$1bil (RM4.14bil) in each of the past two quarters.