Qualcomm Sees AI Driving Its Next Growth Wave
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Qualcomm talking about AI as the next growth wave—while warning about memory prices and pivoting toward automotive, data centers, and industrial—underscores that edge and vertical silicon are where the margin story is moving. If you build AI-heavy products, watch how quickly on-device and domain-specific chips become table stakes versus cloud-only inference.
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