Qualcomm is known for designing mobile chips, but the company is paving roads into the laptop market, eyeing Apple’s M1 chip as the benchmark.
Qualcomm, best known for designing chips inside many Android devices, is setting its sights on a different market: Laptops. In his first interview since becoming president and CEO of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon says he believes that Qualcomm can have the best laptop chip on the market. And there’s no one better to design that chip than a team of architects who have worked on chips at Apple. A new interview from Reuters shows a confidant Qualcomm looking to expand its business. Although Qualcomm creates the chips that power many Android handsets, the company used to license the core blueprint from chip designer ARM. Now, the company designs its own mobile cores. It’s also investing in its own laptop designs thanks to a $1.4 billion acquisition of startup Nuvia.
