Qualcomm Announces Multi-Generational Product Collaboration with Amazon to Build Next-Generation AI Data Center Infrastructure

Qualcomm will co-develop customized AI data center silicon and 1.6T-class optical connectivity with Amazon while increasing its own design use of AWS AI tools.

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Qualcomm (QCOM) announced a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon on customized silicon and connectivity for large-scale AI data center infrastructure. The work focuses on AI inference in AWS data centers and targets energy-efficient, high-performance compute.

The companies plan to develop customized Qualcomm silicon for AI workloads at scale and advanced optical connectivity solutions, including links extending up to 1.6T, leveraging Qualcomm SerDes and optical DSP technologies. Qualcomm also plans to deepen its own use of AWS AI infrastructure, including Amazon Bedrock, for electronic design automation workloads to help reduce chip design cycles.

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• Multi-generational collaboration with Amazon to develop customized AI data center silicon and connectivity at scale
• Optical connectivity roadmap includes solutions extending up to 1.6T for high-bandwidth data center interconnects
• Deeper AWS usage for Qualcomm EDA workloads, targeting shorter chip design cycles

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News Explained

Qualcomm’s September 8, 2026 announcement remains at the planned-collaboration stage: it describes future generations of customized silicon and optical connectivity with Amazon, but establishes no current change to existing common holders’ ownership or cash position.

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Key Figures

Optical connectivity: up to 1.6T

Optical connectivity

up to 1.6T

Connectivity solutions under the expanded Amazon collaboration

Key Terms

serdes, optical dsp, electronic design automation

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serdes technical

"The collaboration will leverage Qualcomm Technologies' advanced SerDes"

SerDes (short for serializer/deserializer) is an electronic function that converts parallel streams of data into a single fast serial stream and then converts it back, like packing many lanes of traffic into one high-speed highway and unpacking them at the other end. Investors care because SerDes chips and blocks determine how quickly and efficiently devices, data centers and networks can move information; improvements or bottlenecks affect product performance, production costs, and demand across the semiconductor and communications supply chain.

optical dsp technical

"and optical DSP technologies."

An optical DSP is a specialized processor that analyzes and corrects data carried by light in fiber‑optic networks: it converts incoming optical signals into digital form, removes distortions and noise, and reconstructs the original information so it can be read reliably. Investors should care because the performance, power use and cost of these chips directly affect how fast and far networks and data‑center links can run, influencing equipment sales, operating expenses and competitive advantage in telecom and cloud infrastructure.

electronic design automation technical

"for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads"

Electronic design automation (EDA) is the set of software tools engineers use to create, test and optimize electronic circuits and computer chips before anything is physically built. Think of it as a digital workshop and simulator that lets designers draw a blueprint, catch mistakes, and try performance tweaks quickly — which matters to investors because EDA reduces development time, manufacturing mistakes and costs, and directly affects the competitiveness and profitability of companies that make chips and electronic products.

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Highlights

• Qualcomm collaborating with Amazon across multiple generations of customized silicon to support AWS's growing AI infrastructure.
  
  
• Qualcomm advanced optical connectivity solutions will support high-bandwidth interconnects within Amazon data center networks.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to enable customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, working together on AI inference. In addition, the companies are working on optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T and future-generation solutions.

As AI workloads grow exponentially — driving unprecedented demand for compute, storage, networking and memory bandwidth, and energy-efficient infrastructure — the collaboration brings together Amazon's comprehensive, secure, and price-performant AI infrastructure with Qualcomm Technologies' leadership in power-efficient processing, silicon design and system-level integration.

Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon will also collaborate on high-performance optical connectivity solutions designed to support the growing scale and bandwidth demands of AI infrastructure. The collaboration will leverage Qualcomm Technologies' advanced SerDes and optical DSP technologies.

As part of the expanded collaboration, Qualcomm Technologies plans to deepen its use of AWS AI infrastructure, including Amazon Bedrock, for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, targeting a reduction in chip design cycles.

"As AI demand accelerates, data center infrastructure will require advances in both computing and connectivity to deliver greater performance with more efficiency," said Cristiano Amon, President and CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated. "Qualcomm is pleased to work with AWS on customized silicon and connectivity solutions, bringing decades of leadership in advanced processing and power-efficient compute, to deliver breakthrough performance and enable the next generation of AI infrastructure."

"This collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies builds on a strong foundation of partnership and reflects our shared commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President, AWS. "By working together on customized silicon and advanced connectivity, we're delivering more performant, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure for our customers."

About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global computing leader at the center of the AI era, enabling intelligence to scale from the most personal devices to large‑scale infrastructure. Building on more than four decades of innovation, we develop platforms and solutions that bring together advanced AI, high‑performance, low-power computing and industry‑leading connectivity—powering products and services used around the world.  At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.

Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.  Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Qualcomm Dragonwing and Qualcomm Dragonfly are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Clare Conley, Media Relations
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com

Brett Simpson, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com

 

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FAQ

What technical areas are Qualcomm and Amazon focusing on in this collaboration?

The collaboration covers customized silicon for AI inference in large-scale data centers and high-performance optical connectivity solutions. These include interconnects extending up to 1.6T, using Qualcomm's SerDes and optical DSP technologies, to support growing bandwidth and scale demands of AI infrastructure.

How does Qualcomm plan to use AWS as part of this expanded relationship?

Qualcomm plans to deepen its use of AWS AI infrastructure, including Amazon Bedrock, for electronic design automation workloads. The company is targeting a reduction in chip design cycles by running these EDA workloads on AWS.