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Qualcomm to make data center processors that connect to Nvidia chips
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced at the May 2025 Computex conference in Taiwan that the company is developing new data center processors that will connect to Nvidia chips.
Qualcomm left the data center market in 2018 after a failed Arm server effort but revived its plans following its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, which brought new CPU intellectual property.
Qualcomm intends these custom CPUs to interface efficiently with Nvidia's dominant GPUs and software to support AI workloads in large-scale data centers.
Amon highlighted that integrating their custom processors with Nvidia's rack-scale system supports their common goal of delivering efficient, high-performance computing solutions for data centers.
This move signals Qualcomm's strategic return to the data center sector aimed at powering AI infrastructure and diversifying beyond its traditional smartphone processor business.
Software company Oracle wants to buy advanced chips from Nvidia for around 40 billion dollars (more than 35 billion euros). These are to be installed in a new gigantic data center of OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT. This is reported by the British business newspaper Financial Times based on insiders.
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