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Qualcomm gets paid for the chip. And the idea inside it.
The company behind Snapdragon built a business selling silicon and licensing wireless inventions. Its next test is carrying the economics of the smartphone into cars, PCs and industrial AI.
GLASS Imaging
GLASS Imaging is a Los Altos, California startup building GlassAI, a neural image signal processor (Neural ISP) that uses AI to reverse lens aberrations and sensor imperfections and pull DSLR-grade detail out of the tiny cameras inside smartphones, drones, and wearables. Founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, the company licenses its software to device makers - it debuted commercially in the Honor 600 smartphone in 2026 - and pitches itself as recovering real detail from RAW sensor data rather than hallucinating pixels. It has raised roughly $29-31M, including a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.
DSP Concepts
DSP Concepts is the Silicon Valley audio software company behind Audio Weaver, the embedded audio development platform that powers more than 50 million devices, from Tesla cabins and GoPro cameras to Amazon Alexa-built-in microphones and the first single-SoC Dolby Atmos soundbar.