Qualcomm Secures AWS Data Center Deal With $4 Billion Warrant and $60 Billion Purchase Potential

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Qualcomm has secured a multi-generational silicon partnership with AWS, one of the world's biggest AI infrastructure spenders, sending its shares up over 3%. Under the agreement, Qualcomm granted Amazon warrants covering 25 million shares at $161.26 per share, giving Amazon the right to potentially invest roughly $4 billion if the warrants are fully exercised, with vesting tied to commercial arrangements, binding purchase orders and Amazon's purchases of up to $60 billion worth of Qualcomm server chips. The $60 billion figure does not represent committed revenue, though 3.75 million shares vested at issuance based on Amazon's initial purchase commitments, making the total a potential ceiling dependent on successful execution. The deal adds momentum to Qualcomm's data center push following the June unveiling of its Dragonfly C1000 CPU, for which Meta is a named 2028 customer, and supports the company's target of reaching $15 billion in data center sales by fiscal 2029. Qualcomm's strategy focuses on AI inference and CPUs rather than the GPU training market dominated by Nvidia, and in June the company raised its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue target from $22 billion to $40 billion, a target that remains unvalidated by shipped products and revenue-generating volume at scale.

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AWS secures up to $60 billion of Qualcomm server chips and grants warrants tied to its own purchase commitments, expanding its AI infrastructure supply.

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Qualcomm lands a multi-generational AWS silicon partnership with up to $60 billion in potential server-chip purchases and a $4 billion warrant investment.

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