Qualcomm It has been one of the companies that has started the Computex 2025 talking about its novelties. Among them stands out Return to the chips sector for data centersan area that abandoned in 2018 after unsuccessfully trying the development of processors for them based on ARM. But according to what the CEO of the company, Cristiano AmonDuring his presentation at the fair, he will do so with the design of a personalized processor and prepared to work with AI.
The CPU in question is also prepared to work directly with the software and NVIDIA GPUS, something essential today to work with tasks and loads of AI. Especially, for the training of AI models that are used with chatbots and other artificial intelligence systems.
The key to this return is in a purchase that Qualcomm made in 2021: Nuvia, a chip design company based on ARM designs, and whose experience in the sector has been the basis for the company to return again to the data centers market, which continues to maintain a high level of competitiveness. Among other keys, for the strong presence of AMD and Intel in it, but also because the main cloud providers, such as Amazon and Microsoft, already design their own CPUS for their data centers.
Qualcomm has joined the technological days a few days ago with agreements related to data centers in Saudi Arabia, since it has signed an agreement with the Humain company, based in Saudi Arabia, for the development of data centers. In this way, its chips for this type of facilities would already have a first destination.
For Qualcomm, entering the sector of the data centers again its put one more step in its long -term diversification strategy, which goes through relevant way in more sectors apart from the one that dominates, the sale of chips and modems for smartphones. Until now, since the start -up of it, it has already extended its products to cars chips, as well as PCs.
In fact, as Amon stood out in the presentation of Qualcomm in Computex, there are already more than 85 PC designs that are for sale or in the development phase that incorporate chips from the Snapdragon X series, announced for the first time in 2023. The manager has also commented that they will announce a new chip for PC during their annual event, which they will celebrate next September.
Apparently, the company is promoting its chips ensuring that they are efficient in terms of energy consumption, and capable of executing AI processes on a device instead of the cloud. Some of the advantages of this are the fastest execution of the apps that work with ia as well as a higher level of security, since the data does not leave the device in which they are used.
In addition to its reentry in the sector, Qualcomm has also announced a Collaboration with Aguantechfor progress in the development of Internet applications from things promoted by AI. With this step, the company’s technologies will be integrated more closely into the Edge Computing and IA platforms in the Edge of Advantech to improve in the deployment of intelligent solutions in different sectors of the industry.
The agreement also implies that Aguantech has adopted Qualcomm Dragonwing technology in various lines product and equipment. In addition, both companies will collaborate the development of a tool chain oriented to developers for the development and deployment of AI in the EDGE.
