After try to enter the server chip market about five years ago, Qualcomm has decided to try again. This is what they say in Bloomberg, which also ensures that the company is developing a new one for this purpose. Is about a chip made by its subsidiary Nuviaand is already looking for customers to take over for their data centers.
Among these customers with whom Qualcomm wants to reach an agreement for the purchase of these chips for servers would be AWS, although there are not many details yet about the company’s plans to address its entry into this market. Thus, it is not yet known what type of design Qualcomm would have chosen for the core design. It is also not known what type of chip for data centers it intends to produce.
Nuvia was born after several former Apple and Google chip engineers founded it in 2019, and was developing a line of server chips based on ARM’s chip architecture when it was bought by Qualcomm. That is why it is likely that the chip that the company is developing now is based on ARM architecture.
The last attempt Qualcomm made to enter the server market, as we have mentioned, was in 2017. At that time, it had several cloud providers interested in its chip, which it called the Centriq 2400. Among them was Microsoft. Cloudflare also took an interest in its design. But the company ended the project less than a year after announcing it. Anand Chandrasekher, an Intel veteran who had led the project at Qualcomm, left the company shortly after.
But under the baton of Christiano Amon, Qualcomm you are trying to expand your business beyond chips for smartphones and wireless networks. For some time now, the company has been immersed in the development of various business diversification plans, with which it is also committed to chip development for the automotive and industrial sectors. Also for those intended for PCs based on ARM designswith which to compete with Intel and AMD.
