AWS Partners with Qualcomm for AI Inference Silicon as Qualcomm Designs with Bedrock

The boundary between cloud provider and silicon designer continues to blur. AWS is partnering with Qualcomm to deploy custom AI inference chips across multiple hardware generations, while Qualcomm leverages AWS Bedrock's foundation models to assist its chip design workflows. By serving simultaneously as customer and supplier to one another, the two companies illustrate a pragmatic, intertwined approach to scaling AI infrastructure and semiconductor engineering.