Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI

Qualcomm is preparing products for the datacenter. CEO Cristiano Amon used the last minute of his keynote at the Computex conference in Taiwan to reveal the chipmaker is working on products that he said will be described "soon." Qualcomm quit the datacenter market in 2018 after a failed effort to build Arm servers. Amon said …

[Anonymous Coward]

Starting from zero

I'd suggest Qualcomm trying to get into the DC server market at this point in time is perhaps rather late in the hype cycle?

How long will it take to create a profitable business of credible scale from scratch? The progress in PC CPU is a fair base to work from, but even so I'm guessing six years to get reasonable scale and a credible ROI. That's a long time when everybody is already building out DCs in huge volume, and the real money is in GPUs. If Qualcomm can really add something new like a step change in energy use per instruction, then perhaps, but with everybody else already in this market and chasing that goal, who'd bet on Qualcomm?

[elsergiovolador]

Re: Starting from zero

You got to start somewhere. Competition is always welcome.