Qualcomm Enters AI Chip Battle with Confidence

Qualcomm unveils the launch of their AI200 and AI250 chips to fight against the dominance of Nvidia and change the future of AI data centers.

Qualcomm has competed in the competitive microchip AI sector with the launch of new AI200 and AI250 accelerators, trying to challenge a dominant market share of 90 percent at Nvidia. In his speech at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh, the CEO Cristiano Amon said the AI dominance battle is only starting, and Qualcomm transformed its strategic focus to no longer use mobile technology but big AI infrastructures.

The AI200 (delivery 2026) and AI250 (delivery 2027) will be designed to be oriented to the AI inference computing, which will allow models to run faster and more efficiently. With a memory of 768GB, they are superior to the current designs of Nvidia and AMD. Humain in Saudi Arabia is expected to install AI200 chips in its 200-megawatt and highly capacitated data centers next year as the first significant client of Qualcomm in terms of scale of AI infrastructure.

Despite Amon admitting that the present-day AI boom is the result of a bubble-like situation, he believed that the potential of the technology remains likely to be understated. Despite the concern in the industry, the arrival of Qualcomm highlights a rising view of China, and indeed the world, as having no qualms of belief in the future of AI. Analysts also think that spending on AI-powered data centers will exceed $6.7 trillion by 2030, which makes Qualcomm a new force in the changing AI ecosystem.