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Qualcomm

QCOM

Hardware

Chip designer whose Snapdragon processors run AI on phones, PCs and cars, now selling data-centre AI accelerators as well, and shipping the on-device inference runtime it bought with Nexa AI.

Supplied by: TSMC

Subsidiary: Modular

Total funding—

Market cap$174.9B

Employees52,000

Founded1985

HeadquartersSan Diego, USA

StatusPublic

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Qualcomm AI Hub Developer tool Sold on its own

  A developer platform for optimising, benchmarking and deploying on-device AI models against 300+ pre-optimised models and 50+ real Qualcomm devices in the cloud.

• Qualcomm AI Inference Suite Platform

  A cloud and on-premises inference platform offering an SDK, OpenAI-compatible APIs and ready-made chat, RAG, image and code applications on top of Qualcomm's AI accelerators.

• Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra Hardware

  A PCIe AI inference accelerator card with up to 870 TOPS INT8 and 128GB of memory, built for generative AI and LLM inference in the data centre.

• Qualcomm Dragonfly AI200 Hardware

  Rack-scale data-centre inference accelerator carrying 768 GB of LPDDR per card, announced October 2025 with commercial availability expected in 2026.

• Qualcomm Dragonfly AI250 Hardware

  A second-generation rack-scale AI inference platform using Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) Gen 1 for memory-bound agentic inference.

• Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 Hardware

  A third-generation rack-scale AI inference platform using Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) Gen 2 for hyperscale LLM and agentic deployments.

• Snapdragon Hardware

  Mobile and PC processor family whose on-device AI engine runs models locally on phones, laptops and cars.

• Snapdragon X Series Hardware

  A family of Snapdragon compute platforms for Windows PCs (X, X2 Elite, X2 Plus) sold on NPU-accelerated on-device AI performance.

• Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-2390 Hardware

  Embedded edge-AI processor in early access; part of Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ2 series for IoT.

• Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 Series Hardware Sold on its own

  Embedded IoT/edge-AI processor family, distinct from the Dragonfly AI200/250/300 data-centre accelerator line; an IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit is purchasable through Qualcomm's developer hardware section.

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Sources

Market cap

Third-party database · 27 Aug 2026

Refreshed against the listing's own page.

Employees

Regulatory filing · 28 Sep 2025

QUALCOMM INC/DE Form 10-K (Item 1, Human Capital), SEC, filed 2025-11-05, for the period ended 2025-09-28. Filing states: "At September 28, 2025, we had approximately 52,000 full-time, part-time and temporary workers, the overwhelming majority of which were full-time employees." CIK 804328.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 28 Sep 2025

QUALCOMM INC/DE Form 10-K, SEC, filed 2025-11-05, for fiscal year ended 2025-09-28. us-gaap:Revenues per XBRL, audited. This is the trailing twelve months AS OF the fiscal year end, not as of today. CIK 804328.

Description

Company disclosure · 17 Sep 2026

Qualcomm’s own developer blog: "Run Gen AI on Qualcomm chipsets with GenieX (formerly NexaSDK)". NexaSDK was Nexa AI’s product; Qualcomm acquired the company and nexa.ai now 301-redirects to aihub.qualcomm.com/genai. Recorded here rather than as its own card: the acquired product is too weak a surface to earn a separate record, and nexa.ai publishes no company site, no address and is not in Y Combinator’s directory — country-level under Qualcomm is what the evidence supports.

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