Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market

Company also debuted the Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute and the Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 inference accelerator

Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data centre chip with Meta as its first named customer and confirmed its $3.9 billion acquisition of AI startup Modular.

Qualcomm's primary business has been smartphones, which accounted for two-thirds of the company's product revenue in it's most recent quarter.

Qualcomm's Dragonfly C1000 chip lands Meta as a data center customer, but a 2028 ship date and a 7% stock drop signal investor skepticism about the

Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio

Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market

Qualcomm announces Meta as first Big Tech customer for its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU, targeting agentic AI workloads with production starting in 2028.

Qualcomm is pushing further into the data center market with a new processor called the Dragonfly C1000.

Qualcomm's Dragonfly AI300 promises 4x-8x better performance-per-watt compared to existing GPU-based architectures for AI workloads.

The Dragonfly lineup heads into a market where buyers are being “nudged” toward Huawei and Cambricon.