Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center market
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Google putting roughly $548M into ~3M Qualcomm shares is a strategic hedge on alternative AI data center silicon, not just a financial bet. If you’re building AI infra, assume a more diversified accelerator landscape — vendor lock-in arguments will need to account for multiple chip ecosystems.
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