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TNB Tech Minute: Qualcomm Launches AI Chips in Challenge to Nvidia

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Apple and Microsoft are neck-and-neck in the race to become the stock market’s second $4 trillion company. And Amazon pledges more than $1.6 billion to bolster AWS and its retail business in the Netherlands. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:13.0

From the largest cloud to the smallest device, Arm delivers the compute performance AI depends on.

0:19.0

AI innovation is built on ARM.

0:22.2

Find out more at arm.com forward slash discover.

0:29.9

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Monday, October 27th.

0:34.5

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:36.9

Shares in Qualcomm were up 12% this afternoon

0:39.7

after the company said it's launching new artificial intelligence chips to challenge Nvidia.

0:45.3

The AI 200 will start shipping next year and the AI 250 in 27. In an interview, a senior VP at

0:52.7

Qualcomm said the new chips have high memory capabilities and are energy efficient.

0:57.8

Qualcomm's first customer for the AI 200 chips will be Humane, an AI company established by Saudi Arabia's public investment fund.

1:05.9

Humane simultaneously announced a partnership with Nvidia.

1:10.0

Apple and Microsoft are racing to become the stock market's second $4 trillion company after

1:15.9

Nvidia. Microsoft briefly crossed the threshold earlier this year, following its quarterly

1:21.1

earnings report in July, but the stock price retreated and it now has a market capitalization

1:26.4

of roughly $3.89 trillion, according to

1:29.8

FACSET. Apple is just above that, with the market cap of about $3.9 trillion. Both tech giants are

1:36.5

set to report quarterly earnings later this week. And Amazon says it'll invest more than $1.6 billion

1:43.9

in the Netherlands over the next three years

1:46.5

to prop up its cloud computing and retail businesses there. The investment will shore up

1:51.8

Amazon Web Services and improve retail logistics, product selection, and delivery speeds.

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