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Qualcomm

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Chairman / President

Mark D. McLaughlin

CEO / Managing Director

Cristiano R. Amon

CFO / Finance Director

Akash Palkhiwala

Industry

Technology, Semiconductors

Website

qualcomm.com

Headquarters address

5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:QCOM

Year founded

1985

Xiaomi’s AI-powered smart glasses on display at a store in Guangzhou, China. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Artificial intelligence

Meta leads AI glasses surge, as Xiaomi emerges as dark horse

Competition is expected to intensify as more companies, such as Alibaba and ByteDance, enter the space in the second half of 2025.

13 Aug 2025 - 5:00PM

Semiconductors

Chip design tool supplier Cadence to plead guilty to US for China sales

29 Jul 2025 - 10:00AM

Artificial intelligence

WAIC Shanghai: China reveals new great leap forward with 1,509 AI models

28 Jul 2025 - 9:19PMvideocam

Alibaba

Alibaba previews its first AI-powered glasses, joining heated race

The Quark glasses underscore the tech giant’s significant AI investments, which encompass both software and hardware products.

28 Jul 2025 - 3:25PM

Alibaba showcases its first pair of AI glasses, slated for official launch later this year. Photo: Handout

Smartphones

Samsung aims to expand smartphone AI beyond Google Gemini

The South Korean giant is in talks with the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity to give users more options on its coming GalaxyS26 series.

25 Jul 2025 - 12:32PM

Smartphones

Samsung bets on AI foldable phones to challenge Apple, Chinese rivals

The South Korean giant lost its global smartphone crown to Apple in 2023, and faces growing competition from Huawei and Honor.

10 Jul 2025 - 11:51AM

VR and AR

Meet the Chinese start-up behind Google’s Android XR glasses

Despite waves of hype, mixed-reality technology has yet to achieve mainstream adoption due to high costs, hardware limitations and application scarcity.

6 Jul 2025 - 9:00AM

Project Aura’s AR glasses are powered by Android XR. Photo: handout

US-China relations

Carmakers GM, Tesla and Ford lead list of US companies in China exposure: report

Corporate giants Amazon, Apple, Meta and Nvidia rank outside top 10 but still among tech firms at risk.

27 Jun 2025 - 5:01AM

Xiaomi

Xiaomi enters ‘smart glasses war’ with first AI-powered eyewear

The tech giant announced its camera-equipped frames during an event on Thursday, leveraging its vast ecosystem in a crowded market.

26 Jun 2025 - 9:32PM

Mergers & Acquisitions

Billionaire Dai to reap US$237 million windfall from Qualcomm deal

Dai Weili holds 96.3 million shares of London-listed semiconductor firm Alphawave IP Group, making her its second-largest shareholder.

19 Jun 2025 - 12:13PM

Portrait of Weili Dai for Post Magazine on 9 September 2009. Photo: SCMP

Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | SemiDrive to supply cockpit chips in European EVs as Chinese firms go global

‘Striving to be a top global chip supplier, we need to expand from the China market to the global market,’ general manager Eugene Wang says.

17 Jun 2025 - 7:30AM

Visitors look at a display at the booth of SemiDrive Technology at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show. Photo: Getty Images

Semiconductors

Qualcomm chips away at smartphone reliance with US$2.4 billion Alphawave AI bet

As Qualcomm looks to lessen its reliance on the smartphone market, Alphawave would provide it with technology used in data centres.

9 Jun 2025 - 5:44PM

VR and AR

Chinese AR glasses maker Rokid is going global with Alibaba partnership

Rokid will launch its AR Spatial glasses on AliExpress through the platform’s ‘BigSave’ programme, shaving off about US$100 off the US$650 eyewear.

7 Jun 2025 - 4:30PM

Robotics

China claims breakthrough in robotics software that supports domestic chips

The Intewell operating system is designed to serve as foundational software for embodied intelligent robots.

30 May 2025 - 6:30PM

A child interacts with a robot at the 20th Western China International Fair in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, May 25, 2025. Photo: Xinhua

Artificial intelligence

Meet Chinese start-up Xreal, Google’s partner in AR glasses project

Project Aura provides a big boost to Xreal’s credentials in the smart glasses arena, while widening its reach in the international market.

21 May 2025 - 9:00PM

The Project Aura eyewear from Xreal and Google is expected to compete with other augmented reality spectacles from the likes of Meta Platforms, Orion and Artemis. Photo: Handout

Semiconductors

Xiaomi’s new 3-nanometre chip takes on rival products from Apple, Qualcomm

The chip marks another milestone for China’s technology self-sufficiency drive amid tightened US export controls on advanced semiconductors.

20 May 2025 - 7:55PM

Huawei

Huawei’s chip unit doubled revenue last year on back of firm’s smartphone growth

HiSilicon recorded a surge in revenue in 2024, driven by strong sales of Huawei’s Pura 70 and Mate 70 handsets, according to Counterpoint Research.

16 May 2025 - 6:00PM

Donald Trump

UAE to build biggest AI campus outside US, bypassing past China worries

Deal is a major win for the UAE, which has been trying to balance its relations with ally US and largest trading partner China.

16 May 2025 - 1:54PM

President Donald Trump and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Thursday. Photo: AP

Huawei

Huawei develops computer chips in move away from Intel, Windows

The company is expected to forgo US hardware and software in favour of self-developed technology in its next personal computers.

17 Mar 2025 - 7:00PM

Semiconductors

TSMC pitches Nvidia, others about joint venture to run Intel foundry

US President Donald Trump is keen to revive Intel’s fortunes, as he seeks to boost American advanced manufacturing, sources say.

12 Mar 2025 - 1:15PM

Technology

Trump set to meet with US tech leaders next week amid new tariffs, export rules

A group that includes the CEOs of HP, Intel, IBM and Qualcomm has discussed meeting with the Trump administration on Monday, sources say.

6 Mar 2025 - 4:45PM

New tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump threaten to roil the computer-hardware industry, as manufacturing supply chains get disrupted. Photo: Shutterstock

Apple

Apple unveils US$599 iPhone 16e, a budget-friendly AI handset

The 16e will include a powerful chip to run Apple Intelligence, a set of features with access to ChatGPT.

20 Feb 2025 - 10:00AM

iPhone 16e phones with the new C1 cellular modem are tested at an Apple lab in California. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Ex-Apple engineer returns to China to teach about semiconductors at alma mater

Wang Huanyu joins a wave of Chinese scientists to leave the US and return home.

19 Feb 2025 - 11:30PM

United States

Biden’s semiconductor law will boost US chip production at high cost: report

Subsidies behind the expected chipmaking boom mean that each job created will cost taxpayers about US$185,000 a year.

16 Jan 2025 - 1:20AMvideocam

Semiconductors

Qualcomm defeats Arm’s claim over chip design license breach

Qualcomm is one of Arm’s biggest customers but they both have grown increasingly at odds as they have become rivals in the processor industry.

21 Dec 2024 - 1:00PM

Arm CEO Rene Haas gives a speech at the COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 3, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

China industry bodies call for ‘caution’ in buying US chips amid latest sanctions

This initiative could deal a blow to the mainland businesses of Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel.

4 Dec 2024 - 12:06AM

The China Semiconductor Industry Association says US chips are “no longer safe, no longer reliable”. Photo: Shutterstock

Smartphones

Huawei’s Mate 70 sales affected by ‘modest’ chip, no Android support: analysts

Mate 70 smartphone sales are expected to reach 3 million units this fourth quarter, according to TechInsights.

1 Dec 2024 - 4:16PM

Xiaomi

Xiaomi readies in-house mobile chip for 2025 in move away from Qualcomm

Xiaomi’s move could help with China’s goal of tech self-reliance, but only Apple and Google have completely transitioned to self-designed silicon.

26 Nov 2024 - 7:02PM

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