What Is Qualcomm — and Why Is It Moving Into AI Chips?
Qualcomm built its business on the Snapdragon chips inside most Android phones — and is now challenging Nvidia with AI chips built for data centers.
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Qualcomm is a US chipmaker best known for the Snapdragon processors that power much of the smartphone industry, and increasingly a player in AI hardware. It builds on-device AI accelerators for phones and laptops and has moved into data-center inference chips. This hub follows Qualcomm’s AI chips, acquisitions, and its push to run AI across many kinds of hardware.
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Qualcomm Agrees to Acquire AI Software Startup Modular
Qualcomm has agreed to buy Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX platform, for a reported ~$4 billion, aiming to build a cross-hardware AI deployment stack.
Read more →Qualcomm Unveils Dragonfly Data Center Chip Family, Wins Meta as First Customer
Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
Read more →Qualcomm Buys AI Software Startup Modular for $3.9 Billion
Qualcomm will acquire Modular — creator of the Mojo language and MAX inference engine — in a $3.9 billion all-stock deal aimed at letting developers deploy AI on any hardware without rewrites.
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