#Qualcomm

A small mobile chip package on one side of a bright bench and a much larger datacenter inference accelerator card on the other, a measuring caliper caught spanning the size difference between them

Qualcomm Wants Out of the Phone. The Datacenter Is the Test.

Qualcomm built an empire on mobile chips it doesn't fully control the ceiling of. Moving into AI datacenter inference is a bet on a market with no such ceiling — and a much more crowded field of competitors already established there.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

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