Qualcomm, Amazon to develop custom chips for AI data centers

FILE PHOTO: An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, U.S., October 3, 2025.

FILE PHOTO: An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, U.S., October 3, 2025. (REUTERS/Noah Berger for AWS//File Photo)


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Sept 8 — Qualcomm announced a collaboration with ​Amazon on Tuesday, spanning several product generations, to develop custom chips ‌for the e-commerce giant's AI data centers.

Shares of the ⁠San Diego, California-based ​chipmaker rose more ⁠than 9% in premarket trading. The stock ‌has slipped ‌about 1% this year, as a ⁠rebound in August ⁠only partly recouped steep losses sparked by weaker smartphone demand.

The companies will work together on chips for AI inference, a fast-growing market ‌focused on running trained ​AI models that has become a key battleground among semiconductor firms.

Qualcomm and Amazon will also develop high-speed optical connectivity technologies, including solutions extending to 1.6 terabits per second, ​to support growing bandwidth demands ‌in AI ‌data ⁠centers.

As part of the partnership, Qualcomm plans to expand its use of AWS artificial intelligence services and infrastructure ‌for chip design ​workloads, aiming to ‌shorten development cycles.

(Reporting ⁠by ​Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja ​Desai)

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