Qualcomm and AWS plan 1.6T AI infrastructure

Qualcomm and Amazon announced a multi-generational collaboration to build customized AI data-center silicon for AWS, alongside optical connectivity reaching 1.6T. Qualcomm’s release says the company will also use AWS AI infrastructure for electronic-design automation, but discloses no price, deployment timeline, or volume commitment. Operators should file this as supply-chain optionality rather than a reason to switch: the archive’s $40M-per-megawatt AI-capacity benchmark still matters more until Qualcomm publishes samples and measured performance.