Amazon and Qualcomm to co-develop custom AI silicon for data centers
Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services announced a multi-generation collaboration to co-develop customized silicon for large-scale AI inference and high-performance optical connectivity, leveraging Qualcomm SerDes and optical DSP capabilities and deeper AWS use for EDA workloads. Markets reacted with Qualcomm shares up about 5% and Broadcom up about 3%, while Amazon slipped roughly 1%. Qualcomm has set non-handset targets tied to the data-center push, including $5 billion in data-center revenue for fiscal 2027 and $15 billion by fiscal 2029, but the announcement did not disclose committed volumes, revenue or delivery timetables.
Qualcomm will co-develop hyperscale AI inference silicon with AWS.
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