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As of September 5, 2026, Qualcomm had a market capitalization of $180.22B (companiesmarketcap.com).
Qualcomm designs and licenses semiconductors and wireless technology, best known for Snapdragon mobile chips and foundational CDMA/5G patents.
Qualcomm was incorporated in California in 1985 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1991.[1] Qualcomm reports its startup investing in a separate segment, Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives.[1] That segment invests mainly through Qualcomm Ventures, backing companies that open new opportunities for its technologies.[1] Those holdings are mostly non-marketable equity securities.[1] In February 2026 Qualcomm announced plans to invest up to $150 million in Indian technology and AI startups through a new Strategic AI Venture Fund.[2],[3] The fund deploys through Qualcomm Ventures at all stages, with a focus on automotive, robotics, mobile and internet-of-things AI.[2]
It expects non-handset revenue growth, including data center, to accelerate from 24% in fiscal 2026 to more than 60% in fiscal 2027.[3]
Qualcomm is a Nasdaq-listed chipmaker that reported $44.28 billion of fiscal 2025 revenue.
Qualcomm is a semiconductor and licensing company headquartered in San Diego, California, according to its fiscal 2025 annual report. The company conducts business primarily through two segments: QCT (Qualcomm CDMA Technologies), which develops and supplies integrated circuit platforms and system software, and QTL (Qualcomm Technology Licensing), which licenses its wireless patent portfolio.[1]
Qualcomm's QCT revenue breaks down into handsets, automotive and IoT (internet of things) products, the 10-K says. In its fiscal third quarter of 2026, handsets revenue was $5,086 million, automotive revenue was $1,588 million, up 61% year over year, and IoT revenue was $1,830 million, according to the company's earnings release.[2],[1]
Qualcomm employed approximately 52,000 full-time, part-time and temporary workers as of September 28, 2025, working in more than 200 locations across 38 countries, the annual report says.[1]
Qualcomm is publicly traded and does not raise venture funding, but its FY2025 annual report shows total revenue of $44,284 million, up from $38,962 million in fiscal 2024. QCT revenue grew 16% during the year to $37.7 billion from $32.6 billion, driven by higher handsets, IoT and automotive sales, while QTL revenue stayed approximately flat.[1]
Qualcomm's fiscal 2025 net income fell to $5,541 million from $10,142 million in fiscal 2024, the 10-K's consolidated statements of operations show. The company says the decline came mainly from a $5.7 billion fourth-quarter charge to income tax expense, recorded after it concluded it would no longer realize substantially all of its existing federal deferred tax assets.[1]
Qualcomm also acts as an investor through Qualcomm Ventures. The unit backed Indian smart-ring maker Ultrahuman in a $70 million round in September 2026 that valued the company at $365 million, according to TechCrunch, and in February 2026 Qualcomm announced a Strategic AI Venture Fund to invest up to $150 million in Indian AI startups across automotive, robotics, mobile and IoT, a report by Global Venturing says.[3],[4]
Qualcomm's common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol QCOM, the 10-K says. At November 3, 2025 there were 5,564 holders of record of its common stock.[1]
Qualcomm's shares outstanding fell during fiscal 2025, from 1,113 million shares at the start of the year to 1,074 million at the end, as the company issued 17 million shares and repurchased 56 million, the annual report's stockholders' equity statement shows.[1]
Cristiano Amon has served as Qualcomm's President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board since June 2021, according to the FY2025 10-K. Amon joined Qualcomm in 1995 as an engineer and has held several technical and leadership roles since; he has also served on Adobe's board of directors since October 2023.[1]
Akash Palkhiwala has served as Qualcomm's Chief Financial Officer since November 2019 and added the Chief Operating Officer title in January 2024, the 10-K says. He joined Qualcomm in March 2001 and previously served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer, and signed the company's September 2026 8-K as Executive Vice President, CFO and COO.[1],[5]
Qualcomm names Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi as customers that each comprised 10% or more of its consolidated revenues, according to its FY2025 10-K's risk factors. The filing also warns that Apple's growing use of its own modem products, instead of Qualcomm's, would significantly hurt QCT revenues.[1]
Qualcomm's newest large customer relationship is with Amazon's data-center chip business. The September 2026 warrant filing ties Amazon's equity grant directly to its purchases of Qualcomm Technologies' server chip products, technology, systems and manufacturing services, with vesting keyed to binding purchase orders and actual purchases.[5]
Qualcomm also works with startups as a technology partner, not just an investor. Ultrahuman founder and CEO Mohit Kumar told TechCrunch the company is developing a new smart ring that will use Qualcomm's silicon, while continuing to use Nordic Semiconductor chips in its existing rings.[3]
Qualcomm's FY2025 10-K names its chip-industry competitors as Broadcom, HiSilicon, MediaTek, Mobileye, Nvidia, NXP Semiconductors, Qorvo, Samsung, Skyworks, Texas Instruments and UNISOC. The filing also flags competition from products its own largest customers, including Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi, develop in-house.[1]
Qualcomm relies on outside foundries to manufacture its chips, naming Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Samsung Electronics and GlobalFoundries as its manufacturing partners in the same filing, which also doubles as a dependency risk the company discloses to investors.[1]
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Qualcomm is a semiconductors company, based in San Diego, California, USA, founded 1985 by Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio.
Qualcomm's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue fell 8% to $10.3 billion as handset chip sales dropped 26%, while automotive revenue jumped 89% and it kept a $5 billion fiscal 2027 data center target.
Broadcom, Marvell, Oracle, Qualcomm and Anthropic have each raised AI revenue guidance, backlog figures or credit capacity this quarter rather than lowering them, a pattern holding across chipmakers, cloud providers and frontier labs.
Qualcomm and Amazon announced a multi-generational deal to co-develop custom AI inference chips and optical interconnects for AWS data centers, tied to up to $60 billion in potential future purchases and a warrant for Amazon to buy a stake in Qualcomm worth.
GV general partner Dave Munichiello discussed Qualcomm's June 24 acquisition of AI infrastructure software startup Modular in a Crunchbase Q&A published June 30, describing a return of roughly 10x on GV's total dollars invested after leading Modular's Series A at a $155 million valuation with a $23 million check. Munichiello framed the deal as validation of a shift toward 'disaggregated inference' — software that lets AI workloads run efficiently across a mix of chips rather than locking into a single hardware vendor.
Qualcomm's roughly $3.9 billion acquisition of Modular -- the AI-software company founded by Swift and LLVM creator Chris Lattner -- has handed early backer GV a 27x return on its initial check, the firm's Dave Munichiello revealed this week. The deal is the clearest sign yet that the strategic battleground in AI is shifting from raw silicon to the software layer that makes chips usable, as Qualcomm bets it can challenge Nvidia's CUDA moat by owning the stack that runs models across CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators.
Qualcomm agreed on June 24 to acquire Modular, the AI-infrastructure company founded by Chris Lattner (LLVM, Swift), in an all-stock deal valued near $4 billion — its largest ever. The play: use Modular's MAX platform to run AI models across Qualcomm silicon without hand-tuning code for each chip, directly attacking the software stack that has cemented Nvidia's data-center dominance.
Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular -- the startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX AI platform -- in an all-stock deal worth roughly $3.9 billion. The bet is that the way to break Nvidia's dominance isn't a faster chip but an open software layer that lets AI models run efficiently across any hardware, directly challenging the CUDA lock-in.
CEO Cristiano Amon said the company is targeting $40 billion in non-handset revenues by fiscal 2029.[3]
Qualcomm's market capitalization was $180.22B as of September 5, 2026, according to companiesmarketcap.com.
Yes. Qualcomm trades under the ticker QCOM, with a market cap of $180.22B (September 5, 2026, companiesmarketcap.com).
Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, according to Wikipedia.
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