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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.

1 entry · 27 October 2025

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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  1. 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

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