Qualcomm Teams Up with Amazon to Build Custom AI Chips for AWS Data Centres

Exam-focused facts from the 11 September 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Qualcomm and Amazon will jointly develop multiple generations of customised chips for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) AI data centre infrastructure, focusing on chips used for AI inference.
The partnership also covers high-speed optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T for Amazon's data centre networks, using Qualcomm's SerDes and optical digital signal processing technologies.
Qualcomm plans to increase its use of AWS' AI infrastructure, including Amazon Bedrock, for electronic design automation workloads to reduce chip design cycle time.
The announcement expands Qualcomm's push beyond its traditional mobile-chip business into large-scale AI computing infrastructure; financial terms and chip rollout timelines were not disclosed.