GoKawiilCristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, speaks before a Siemens keynote at CES 2026, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Jan. 6, 2026.
Qualcomm on Wednesday revealed a central processing unit for data centers called Dragonfly C1000, and said that Meta would use it when it starts production in 2028.
The chipmaker said that the new data center CPU was built for agentic AI and focuses on offering computing performance without using too much power.
The announcement, made at a Qualcomm presentation to investors, is another sign that the chipmaker best known for smartphone processors and modems is aggressively targeting the data center market.
On Wednesday, Qualcomm said that it has a roadmap to target the quickly-growing market with several different products, including an AI chip and a product that will tie multiple chips together.
"We just been executing, collecting assets, and when we got to this point, we feel that we have a comprehensive portfolio to enter the next phase of the data center," Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said at the investor day.
Shares of the chipmaker were down in trading on Wednesday.
Qualcomm CFO Akash Palkhiwala said in an interview that Qualcomm already has business with nearly every hyperscaler through its smartphone chips and other existing products.
"This is not a new relationship. It's the benefit of what we've delivered to them already on the edge, combined with the scale and the expertise and the confidence in Qualcomm, is what makes them engage with us on data center," Palkhiwala said.