Canonical has formally graduated its construct of Ubuntu Linux for Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors out of beta, providing it on the whole availability for the primary time.
“Our collaboration with Qualcomm Applied sciences ensures that builders and producers can now deploy licensed Ubuntu with confidence,” claims Canonical’s Joe Dulin of the launch, “using the total energy of Qualcomm Dragonwing processors to construct security-focused, high-performance, and clever edge options that may outline the subsequent period of commercial automation and enterprise effectivity.”
Canonical has launched fully-certified builds of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop (pictured) and Server for Qualcomm’s QCS6490 and QCS5430 chips. (📷: Canonical)
“We’re thrilled to see Canonical formally present licensed Ubuntu assist for our Qualcomm Dragonwing platforms,” provides Qualcomm’s Manvinder Singh. “This collaboration simplifies growth and deployment for our prospects, enabling them to harness the immense potential of our QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors with a number one open supply working system. Builders can now prototype, take a look at, and deploy edge AI [Artificial Intelligence] options sooner – using Ubuntu’s tooling and Qualcomm Applied sciences’ high-performance processors to push the boundaries of clever edge innovation.”
Canonical introduced its partnership with Qualcomm again in December final 12 months, releasing beta builds of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux for the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Imaginative and prescient equipment — a Dragonwing QCS6490-powered growth board launched in April that 12 months. Immediately’s announcement shifts from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to the newer Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, offering boot firmware and pre-compiled pictures for each the desktop and server variants.
Uncertified take a look at pictures are additionally out there for the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 EVK platform. (📷: Qualcomm)
The QCS6490 features a Kryo 670 CPU complicated with one high-performance Arm Cortex-A78 Kryo Gold Plus core working at as much as 2.7GHz, three Cortex-A78 Kryo Gold cores working at as much as 2.4GHz, and and 4 low-power Cortex-A55 Kryo Silver cores working at as much as 1.9GHz, a sixth-generation Qualcomm AI Engine with Hexagon 770 tensor and scalar accelerators and vector processing extensions delivering as much as 12 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute, an Adreno 643L graphics processor, and an Adreno 633 imaginative and prescient processing unit, plus tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 radios, World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) assist, and 5 digital camera inputs with a picture processor.
These fully-certified pictures are supplied for the Qualcomm Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 and Gen 2 Lite Imaginative and prescient Growth Package boards, primarily based on the QCS6490 and QCS5430 respectively; an uncertified “early launch” can be supplied for the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 Analysis Package, with the promise of certification to observe. events can discover all pictures on the Ubuntu Downloads web site.
