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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM):
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced at its Investor Day, new data center solutions, including the Qualcomm Dragonfly™ C1000 CPU, Qualcomm® High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), Qualcomm Dragonfly™ AI300 inference accelerator, and connectivity products, together with custom silicon solutions, all engineered to maximize performance per watt and token throughput at lower total cost of ownership. The new platforms highlight Qualcomm Technologies’ growing role in building full‑stack data center infrastructure optimized for AI, spanning agentic and data‑center‑class CPUs, AI inference accelerators, high‑performance connectivity, and at scale custom silicon solutions. The Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 joins the previously announced Qualcomm Dragonfly AI200 and AI250 in its data center solutions portfolio with an annual cadence AI accelerator roadmap.
“Agentic AI is driving a significant increase in demand for AI inference in the data center. As these become the dominant workloads, infrastructure has to deliver much higher performance at lower power and cost,” said Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated. “That plays directly to Qualcomm’s strengths, and we’re well positioned for this shift. With Qualcomm Dragonfly, we’re bringing our high-performance, low-power computing into the data center, with multi-year, multi-generation agreements with leading customers.”
Inference-First Platforms Built for Hyperscalers
Qualcomm Technologies draws on decades of expertise in systems-on-chips (SoCs), low-power design, high-performance processing, and leading IP, combined with experience engineering over 40 billion components, to deliver disaggregated, rack-scale AI infrastructure designed for data-center-grade, agent-intensive AI inference workloads at hyper scale. These innovations enable improved token economics, low latency, simplified integration, scalable deployment, and lower total cost of ownership. As agentic AI dramatically increases token demand, Qualcomm Technologies’ solutions are optimized for tokens-per-watt as the key lever to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
“What enterprises need now goes far beyond individual components. Orchestrating multiple types of compute across distributed, always-on infrastructure is critical,” said Tony Pialis, EVP and GM of Data Center, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “With Qualcomm Dragonfly, we’re bringing together compute, AI, memory, and connectivity into a unified, rack-scale platform designed for increasingly complex, agent-driven workloads while addressing key bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and power consumption. This builds on what Qualcomm Technologies has been delivering for decades: high-performance, low-power compute at scale, now applied to the data center in a way that very few companies can match.”
From Silicon to Rack: A Disaggregated, Rack-Scale AI Inference Platform
Qualcomm Dragonfly C1000 CPU
Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute (HBC)
Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 (Card and Rack)
Custom Silicon
Connectivity
Across the Ecosystem
In addition to the new Qualcomm Dragonfly data center portfolio, Qualcomm Technologies announced a multi-year, multi-generation agreement with Meta.
Qualcomm Technologies and Meta today announced a strategic multi-generation collaboration for Qualcomm Technologies to be a supplier for data center CPUs for Meta. Qualcomm Technologies’ data center CPU, the Qualcomm Dragonfly™ C1000, is planned to power Meta’s next-generation server fleet, underscoring the growing importance of high-performance, power-efficient compute in large-scale, scale-out environments.
Additionally, over 35 global leaders across the technology and AI ecosystems are also sharing their support for Qualcomm Technologies’ data center vision and commercial solutions including Advantest, Arista, Astera, Cirrascale, Compal, Confidential Core AI , Core42, Delta, Fibercop, Foxconn, GIGABYTE Technology, HUMAIN, Inventec, IONOS, Lenovo, Master Works, Microchip Technology, Micron Technology, Nanya Technology, NEC, NeuReality, Quanta, Pegatron Corporation, Samsung SDS, Saptiva AI , SK hynix America, Supermicro, Teradyne, TeraHop, UMC, VAST Data, Viettel IDC, VNPT Group, and Wistron. Read ecosystem partner quotes here.
Qualcomm Technologies is committed to a multi-generation data center roadmap with an annual cadence focused on advancing AI inference performance, energy efficiency, and total cost of ownership. For more information, visit our website.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global computing leader at the center of the AI era, enabling intelligence to scale from the most personal devices to large‑scale infrastructure. Building on more than four decades of innovation, we develop platforms and solutions that bring together advanced AI, high‑performance low-power computing, and industry‑leading connectivity—powering products and services used around the world. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Qualcomm Dragonwing and Qualcomm Dragonfly are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.
Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio
Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio
Qualcomm Unveils Comprehensive Data Center Roadmap for the Agentic AI Era with New Qualcomm Dragonfly Portfolio
PARIS (AP) — In France, the bill for a riot could soon be paid from a family’s housing aid. Some people in a violent crowd could be made to pay for windows they never broke.
France’s Senate approved the measure 229-105 this week, less than two weeks after cost-of-living protests spiraled into the country’s worst unrest in years, leading to estimated damage of over 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion). In one weekend, police arrested nearly 2,400 people; authorities say thousands of shops were looted or damaged. Fire gutted Limoges’ 19th-century city hall.
France is not alone: Across Western Europe, governments are reaching past the rioters — to their parents, and to the apps that carry the call to the streets.
And it may not be over. Spanish fact-checker Maldita.es has found calls for Halloween protests in 46 cities in at least nine European countries. Some urge looting.
Officials say the aim is to prevent the next riot and pay for the last. Critics warn that widening responsibility could punish people who committed no violence and make others afraid to protest.
In France, anyone who knowingly joins a group preparing violence could be made to pay up to 10,000 euros ($11,200) for what others destroy. So could anyone who knowingly stays after police order a violent crowd to disperse, for damage done afterward.
Collecting is the hard part, a Senate report says: Offenders often have little money, or income the law protects from seizure.
The bill would open another source: money the state pays to help families live.
French law already generally holds parents liable for damage caused by their children under 18. Under the bill, once a court ruling is final, the money could be deducted from family allowances and housing aid. Senators added the RSA, France’s minimum-income benefit, worth up to about 650 euros ($730) a month for a single person, and even the back-to-school allowance families get for supplies. A minimum amount would remain protected for living expenses.
Communist Sen. Fabien Gay cited monthly deductions of 57 euros ($63) from a household receiving RSA. At that rate, repaying 10,000 euros would take nearly 15 years.
Supporters say victims deserve compensation and taxpayers shouldn’t carry the cost. One large shop window can cost tens of thousands of euros to replace. After riots in 2023, insurers paid 793 million euros ($888 million) on 16,400 claims, according to France Assureurs, the insurers’ federation.
Human rights groups urged lawmakers to reject the bill, warning it could discourage peaceful protest and hurt families who depend on benefits.
Seizing those payments “could have disastrous consequences for the poorest,” Nathalie Godard of Amnesty International France said in a statement.
The far right backed the bill in the conservative-led Senate. Next comes the National Assembly, where no bloc has a majority.
Seizing rioters’ benefits was long an idea of Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party. Now the government has made it its own, and she leads the polls for next spring’s presidential election.
French students call a protest that shuts their school a “blocus,” or blockade. In Barcelona, it became a hashtag.
TikTok posts under the tag called people to Catalonia Square on Saturday, Oct. 24, and QR codes sent them to WhatsApp or Telegram channels, Catalonia’s interior chief, Núria Parlon, told Cadena SER radio.
On paper, it was a protest over education. There was no route, Parlon said. No banners. No manifesto. Just groups of 10 to 15 young men looting stores, burning trash containers and smashing bus stops.
When police arrived, the looters scattered, said an AP journalist who was at the scene.
Police reported 130 arrests, including 76 minors, according to Spanish news agency EFE.
Some TikTok accounts promoting the gatherings disappeared, while others advertised new Halloween protests, Maldita.es reported. In one Telegram group, messages urged people to wear masks and gloves and wait to be told of a shop “without police.”
In Italy, the argument starts with another family. “Behind that shop window there is a family that has invested a lifetime of sacrifices,” Premier Giorgia Meloni said Oct. 20, announcing a security decree after looting in Milan.
Her principle fits in three Italian words: “Chi rompe paga” — you break it, you pay. “And if the one who breaks it is a minor,” she said, “their parents pay.”
Parents now face fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,120), doubled for a repeat offense, unless they prove they couldn’t have stopped their child. They can be made to pay for damage.
Holding parents accountable may help, said Claudio Bertolotti, director of START InSight, a security research firm, but “fines alone are unlikely to deter teenagers driven by peer pressure or a desire for group recognition.”
Organizing protest violence, even online, now carries four to 12 years in prison.
Telegram and WhatsApp “must shut down such channels when they incite violence,” Parlon said.
Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told The Associated Press the company supports peaceful speech and protest, but “calls for violence, vandalism and theft are explicitly forbidden and are removed whenever discovered.”
He said Telegram had removed such calls linked to protests in Madrid.
TikTok and Meta, which owns WhatsApp, did not respond to requests for comment.
Telegram closed a Barcelona group promoting Halloween looting, but a replacement drew more than 2,000 members, Spanish media reported.
The French bill would let authorities demand removal of certain illegal calls to violence or looting without prior court approval. If they stay up 24 hours, they could order the web addresses blocked. Those decisions could be challenged in court.
The United States is going the other way. Its law generally shields platforms from civil liability for users’ posts, and the Trump administration calls Europe’s rules censorship.
Britain shows the limits of takedowns. After three girls were killed in Southport in 2024, false claims spread online and riots followed. A parliamentary committee found that algorithms amplified harmful material, much of it legal.
Under France’s bill, money meant to house and raise children could help pay for a looted shop.
Associated Press journalists Sylvie Corbet, Joseph Wilson, Hernan Muñoz, Giada Zampano, Kaitlyn Huamani and Jill Lawless contributed to this report.
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Protesters confront police during a demonstration against rising living costs and in support of students’ grievances in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.(AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
A protester holds a French flag during a demonstration against rising living costs in Lyon, France, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Protesters stand in front of burning bicycles during a demonstration against rising living costs, joining students' grievances, in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A car burns at Place de La Republique during a protest against rising living costs in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
People clean up debris in a street next to burned bicycles the day after a demonstration against rising living costs and in solidarity with students' grievances, in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)
