Qualcomm (QCOM) is a publicly traded Networking & Custom Silicon company founded in 1985 and based in San Diego, USA.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 1991 | IPO | $68M | — | — |
Qualcomm reported Q3 fiscal 2026 revenues of $9.947 billion, down 4% year-over-year, reflecting a challenging memory and supply environment. GAAP diluted EPS was $1.87, down 23% YoY; non-GAAP EPS was $2.21, down 20% YoY. Handset revenues declined 20% to $5.086 billion, but Automotive surged 61% to $1.588 billion with 23 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, and IoT grew 9% to $1.830 billion. Combined QCT Automotive and IoT revenues grew 28% YoY. The company completed its acquisition of Modular Inc for generative AI capability. Management projects non-handset revenues (including Data Center) will accelerate from 24% YoY growth in fiscal 2026 to greater than 60% in fiscal 2027, targeting $40 billion in total non-handset revenues by fiscal 2029. Q4 FY26 guidance: revenues $9.7–10.5B; non-GAAP EPS $2.05–2.25. Qualcomm noted broad-based input cost increases across the semiconductor supply chain and is implementing pricing actions expected to benefit gross margins over time.
Q4 FY26 revenues $9.7B–$10.5B; non-GAAP EPS $2.05–$2.25

Qualcomm bets on open-source AI software to make accelerators interchangeable, aiming to weaken Nvidia's lock-in.

IEEE roadmap research finds multi-die assemblies and heterogeneous integration are becoming standard at 2nm and below, driven by AI compute demands outpacing transistor scaling.

Qualcomm details the Snapdragon C SoC for $300 laptops, claiming 67% better battery performance on Cinebench versus Intel's N250.
Qualcomm's flagship Android smartphone SoC, built on a 3nm process with second-generation custom Oryon CPU cores reaching 4.32 GHz. Its upgraded Hexagon NPU and Qualcomm AI Engine run large generative-AI and agentic models on-device, while the Adreno GPU and Snapdragon ISP drive high-end gaming and computational photography. The later Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 extends the line with third-gen Oryon cores and roughly 20% higher CPU performance.
Arm-based SoC family for Windows AI PCs that brought Qualcomm into laptops to challenge Intel and AMD. The X Elite pairs custom Oryon CPU cores with an integrated 45-TOPS Hexagon NPU for on-device AI; the late-2025 X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme scale up to 18 Oryon cores and an 80-TOPS NPU, emphasizing battery life and local LLM inference for Copilot+ class machines.
An open, scalable automotive platform spanning telematics, connectivity, the digital cockpit, and Snapdragon Ride ADAS/autonomous-driving compute. Built on Qualcomm's mobile silicon heritage, it lets automakers consolidate infotainment, driver assistance, and cloud services onto common SoCs. The platform underpins a multibillion-dollar automotive design-win pipeline and is a central pillar of Qualcomm's diversification beyond smartphones.
Qualcomm's data-center AI inference accelerator, designed for high performance-per-watt rather than training. The Ultra variant targets generative-AI and large-language-model inference, with large on-card memory to host sizable models and a power envelope aimed at efficient rack deployments. It marks Qualcomm's push to extend its low-power inference expertise from edge devices into the data center.
670 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.