Qualcomm Steps Into Data Center Arena With New AI Chips to Rival Nvidia, AMD

Qualcomm unveils AI200 and AI250 chips to challenge Nvidia and AMD, marking its bold entry into the booming AI data center market.

Chipmaker Qualcomm, long known as the dominant force in smartphone technology, has announced its aggressive move into the burgeoning AI data center market.

The company on Monday unveiled a new line of AI inference-optimized chips, the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250, aimed directly at the high-growth segment currently led by rivals Nvidia and AMD. The news was met with enthusiasm by investors, with Qualcomm shares soaring by as much as 15%, the company’s biggest single-day gain in over six months.

According to Qualcomm’s official press release, the AI200 and AI250 are part of a “multi-generation data center AI inference roadmap”. They are built to deliver “rack-scale performance and superior memory capacity for fast generative AI inference at industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO).”

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