Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
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Qualcomm pivoting from a ~20% smartphone sales decline toward AI data centers — with partners like Amazon — confirms that edge silicon players are chasing cloud inference dollars. Infra buyers should expect more competitive pricing and specialized accelerators, but also more fragmentation in software stacks and tooling.
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