Qualcomm has revealed a deep learning SDK for devices powered by its Snapdragon 820 SoC. Called the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine, and unveiled at the Embedded Vision Summit, the SDK is an attempt by Qualcomm to expand beyond its core smartphone markets – by enticing automotive, industrial, and IoT developers to its Snapdragon SoC platform. Based on the neuromorphic Zeroth Machine Intelligence Platform, Qualcomm’s equivalent to IBM TrueNorth neurosynaptic chips, the kit aims to bring the hardware-specific functions of those brain chips to a more general purpose Snapdragon platform – so that mobile devices can leverage the incredible potential of silicon that acts in the same manner as a human brain. While IBM is planning on shipping its brain chips…