In a recent report on June 13th, Qualcomm President Christiano Amon said in an interview with Reuters that Qualcomm has no plans to withdraw from the server chip market. This is also Amon’s participation in China’s 2018 China Big Data following the end of May. After responding at the industry expo, once again, the server chip business position is maintained.
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Qualcomm is considering whether to sell or close the server chip business, causing speculation that Qualcomm, which is currently implementing a cost reduction plan, may consider exiting some non-core business areas. Qualcomm was also exposed before. In the personnel reduction plan, the server team half dismissed half of the news.
However, after attending the big data summit held in Guiyang, China, Amon said that Qualcomm will never withdraw from the server chip data center market. Amon said that Qualcomm is conducting joint assessments with Huawei Semiconductor and will cooperate with the Guizhou government in the future. , is considering the integration of related work centered around the data center into Huaxin Tong. 'But even so, this in no way means that Qualcomm exit the data center business. 'Amon said.
This time, Amon revealed more information during an interview with Reuters. Amon said that in order to effectively reduce costs, the server chip business will be incorporated into Qualcomm's CDMA technology department. At the same time, the market will focus on large-scale Internet companies in the United States and China. .
Amon did not disclose the customer goals of US Internet companies, but in the Chinese market, Amon said that he hopes to cooperate with Ali, Tencent and Baidu.
In November last year, Qualcomm entered the server chip market and launched the 10-nm server processor Qualcomm Centriq 2400 series with ARM architecture.
Qualcomm’s move is also seen as a challenge to server chip giant Intel, which is also a battle between the ARM and X86 camps. However, currently in the market for server chips used in data centers, Intel has an absolute advantage, occupying 99% of the market. Market share. Half of Intel's revenue comes from servers and other data center chip business.
In Amon's view, the opportunity of the ARM platform is very clear to Qualcomm, that is, those large companies that do not have X86 entry barriers. Large companies have the ability to write software for customized Qualcomm chips based on the reduced instruction set of the ARM platform, while small companies cannot Make it happen.