Qualcomm will produce chips for Amazon, and Amazon acquired a 4 billion-dollar stake in the company.
On September 8-9, 2026, a strategic cooperation was officially announced and an agreement was signed, entering the stage of jointly building chip and optical connection infrastructure.
From September 8 to 9, 2026, Qualcomm announced a deep strategic partnership with Amazon to jointly develop custom chips and infrastructure for artificial intelligence. As part of the core transaction, Qualcomm issued warrants to Amazon, allowing the latter to purchase up to 25 million shares at $161.26 per share, with a total investment of $4 billion. The cooperation focuses on leveraging each party’s strengths: using Amazon AWS ecosystem and Qualcomm’s leading capabilities in low-power processing, chip design, and system-level integration to jointly develop custom chips for AI inference and optical connection solutions with a capacity of up to 1.6T, to meet the exponentially growing demand for computing power and bandwidth. This cooperation will include Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU and SerDes optical DSP technologies. Qualcomm plans to commercialize related accelerators in 2026 and gradually increase the use of AWS cloud services. The warrants will expire in 2036, with shares being distributed in batches. After the announcement, affected by this partnership, Qualcomm…
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On September 8-9, 2026, a strategic cooperation was officially announced and an agreement was signed, entering the stage of jointly building chip and optical connection infrastructure.
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2026-09-08
On the 8th, it was officially announced that there would be a cross-generation AI infrastructure cooperation.
Qualcomm and Amazon announced a cross-generation AI infrastructure cooperation, jointly developing custom chips for AI inference and optical connection solutions up to 1.6T. On the same day, Bloomberg reported that both parties signed an agreement, under which Qualcomm would provide Amazon with custom AI chips to meet its hardware requirements.
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2026-09-09
On the 9th, details of the cooperation and equity transaction were officially announced.
Qualcomm announced establishing a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon. Warrants were issued allowing Amazon to purchase up to 25 million shares at $161.26 per share, with a total investment of $4 billion.