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Qualcomm
Mobile and on-device AI chip leader (Snapdragon) that in 2025 entered the data-centre market with the AI200 and AI250 inference accelerators.
Qualcomm is a US chip company, founded in 1985 and based in San Diego, best known for the Snapdragon processors and modems inside much of the world's mobile hardware and for on-device AI. In October 2025 it moved into the data-centre AI market for the first time, announcing the AI200 and AI250 — rack-scale inference systems built around its Hexagon neural-processing cores — with the AI200 expected in 2026 and the AI250, using a near-memory design, in 2027. The move put it into direct competition with Nvidia and AMD for inference workloads, anchored initially by a deployment with the Saudi venture HUMAIN.
- Category
- Compute, chips & infrastructure
- Founded
- 1985
- HQ
- San Diego, US
- Funding
- Publicly listed (Nasdaq: QCOM)
- Key people
- Cristiano Amon
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Qualcomm and AWS partner on custom AI data-centre chips
Qualcomm, previously absent from AI data-centre silicon, will develop custom inference chips and optical connectivity supporting up to 1.6 terabits per second with AWS across multiple future chip generations.
Compute & infrastructure
Qualcomm unveils AI200 and AI250 data-centre inference chips
Built on Qualcomm's Hexagon phone-chip architecture, the AI200 ships in 2026 and the AI250 in 2027; Saudi firm Humain committed to 200 megawatts of capacity.
Compute & infrastructure
Hugging Face raises $235 million Series D at a $4.5 billion valuation
Salesforce led the round; Google, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, IBM and Qualcomm all joined too, more than doubling the company's valuation from 2022.
Money & business · Open weights & ecosystem
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