What Qualcomm is up to now

New 09-08 (15:00): THE CEILING IS $60BN, PER THE FILING. Qualcomm's own 8-K, filed today for a 09-03 event under Item 3.02, discloses the Amazon warrant as up to 25,000,000 shares at $161.26, vesting in tranches against execution of commercial arrangements, binding purchase orders and actual purchases — capped at $60 billion in payments, with 3,750,000 shares (15%) vesting immediately on initial purchase commitments. This does not contradict the morning read that the "$4bn" is warrant value rather than a contract; it adds the number the parties themselves wrote down for how large the Amazon relationship could get. The market disagreed with the enthusiasm inside one session: the ~10% pop faded to about +2.9% by mid-afternoon. New 09-08: BACK IN THE DATA CENTRE, WITH AMAZON. Qualcomm announced a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon to build custom AI data-centre silicon, and the stock rose about 10%. ⚠️ The "$4 billion" figure in most headlines is the value of a warrant Qualcomm issued Amazon for up to 25 million of its own shares — not cash consideration and not a disclosed contract size; most coverage collapses that distinction. This is the first substantial Qualcomm data-centre design win the map has recorded, ending the quiet stretch that ran from 08-05 through the summer, and it repositions Qualcomm from a handset-and-edge story into the custom-ASIC competition.

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