Qualcomm Gives Amazon Warrants Tied to $60 Billion AI Chip Deal

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Qualcomm has given Amazon an equity-linked incentive to deepen their AI-infrastructure partnership, with Amazon able to eventually purchase as much as $60 billion of Qualcomm data-center products while purchase-linked warrants could hand Amazon roughly $4 billion of Qualcomm shares at $161.26 each. Qualcomm shares gained approximately 2.1% to $188.64 Thursday, a level 7.37% above the stock's $175.69 GF Value. The warrant value represents roughly 6.7% of the maximum purchasing framework, directly tying Amazon's buying activity to Qualcomm's equity story. The two companies are also working together on custom AI inference silicon and optical connectivity capable of reaching 1.6 terabits per second. No minimum purchase commitment, delivery timetable or margin profile has been disclosed.

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Qualcomm secures a potential $60B Amazon AI chip/data-center purchase framework, with purchase-linked warrants tying Amazon's buying to Qualcomm equity.

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Amazon gets warrants tied to purchasing up to $60B of Qualcomm data-center AI products, deepening its AI-infrastructure supply partnership.

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