{"id":254769,"date":"2025-10-27T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254769\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:16:09","slug":"qualcomm-accelerates-data-center-push-with-new-ai-chips-launching-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254769\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm accelerates data center push with new AI chips launching next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -Qualcomm on Monday unveiled two <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> chips for data centers, with commercial availability from next year, as it pushes to diversify beyond smartphones and expand into the fast-growing AI infrastructure market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Shares of Qualcomm surged nearly 15% on the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The new chips, called AI200 and AI250, are designed for improved memory capacity and running AI applications, or inference, and will be available in 2026 and 2027, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Global investment in AI chips has soared as cloud providers, chipmakers and enterprises rush to build infrastructure capable of supporting complex, large language models, chatbots and other generative AI tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Nvidia chips, however, underpin much of the current AI boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Qualcomm, to strengthen its AI portfolio, agreed to buy Alphawave in June, which designs semiconductor tech for data centers, for about $2.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In May, Qualcomm also said it would make custom data center central processing units that use technology from <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nvidia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> to connect to the firm&#8217;s artificial intelligence chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Qualcomm said the new chips support common AI frameworks and tools, with advanced software support, and added they will lower the total cost of ownership for enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The San Diego-based company also unveiled accelerator cards and racks based on the new chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Earlier this month, peer Intel announced a new artificial intelligence chip called Crescent Island for the data center that it plans to launch next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Qualcomm on Monday unveiled two artificial intelligence chips for data centers, with commercial availability from next year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15642,102153,181,28,138277,7258,90877,15649],"class_list":{"0":"post-254769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai-applications","9":"tag-ai-infrastructure-market","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-commercial-availability","13":"tag-data-centers","14":"tag-nvidia-chips","15":"tag-qualcomm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}