Qualcomm CEO: Generative AI Will Redefine the Smartphone Industry in 2024
2024 is set to be a transformative year for AI in smartphones, with advancements in hybrid AI models and new features reshaping user experiences and industry dynamics.
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Qualcomm develops and licenses wireless technology and designs chips for smartphones. The company's key patents revolve around CDMA and OFDMA technologies, which are standards in wireless communications that are the backbone of all 3G, 4G, and 5G networks. Qualcomm's IP is licensed by virtually all wireless device makers. The firm is also the world's largest wireless chip vendor, supplying nearly every premier handset maker with leading-edge processors. Qualcomm also sells RF-front end modules into smartphones, as well as chips into automotive and Internet of Things markets.
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| to | $44.28 billion | Not available | $1.19 billion | $14.01 billion | Not available | $9.04 billion | 20.4% |
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| Qualcomm (QCOM) | $172.62 | — | — | — | — |
| NVIDIA (NVDA) | $221.30 | — | — | — | — |
| AMD (AMD) | $570.82 | — | — | — | — |
| Apple (AAPL) | $342.96 | — | — | — | — |
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| Broadcom (AVGO) | $346.25 | — | — | — | — |
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2024 is set to be a transformative year for AI in smartphones, with advancements in hybrid AI models and new features reshaping user experiences and industry dynamics.
Qualcomm (QCOM) last closed at $172.62 on October 14, 2026. Quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes.
Over the past 52 weeks QCOM has traded between $121.99 and $259.92.
Qualcomm has a market capitalisation of about $188.86 billion.
QCOM trades on NASDAQ, in the Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment industry.
Qualcomm pays a dividend of $0.92 per share, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of about 2.10%.
Qualcomm last executed a 2-for-1 stock split on August 16, 2004.
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