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Qualcomm unveils chip to rival Nvidia in AI accelerators
Mint Chennai
|October 28, 2025
Qualcomm Inc., the top maker of mobile phone processors, is entering the lucrative artificial intelligence (AD) data center market with new chips and computers, aiming to challenge Nvidia Corp. in the fastest-growing part of the industry.
The AI200 will start shipping next year and be offered as either a standalone component, cards that can be added into existing machines or as part of a full rack of servers provided by Qualcomm. The first customer for the offerings will be Saudi Arabia's AI startup Humain, which plans to deploy 200 megawatts of computing based on the new chips starting in 2026.
This story is from the October 28, 2025 edition of Mint Chennai.
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