--- title: Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom... description: Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares (about $4B at $161.26/share) tied to commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-hands-amazon-4b-of-warrants-to-build-custom-silicon-for-aws-8xjkwfvmk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom silicon for AWS | daily.dev og:description: Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares (about $4B at $161.26/share) tied to commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-hands-amazon-4b-of-warrants-to-build-custom-silicon-for-aws-8xjkwfvmk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8xjKWFVmk.png og:image:alt: Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom silicon for AWS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom silicon for AWS **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares (about $4B at $161.26/share) tied to commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS covering AI inference and optical connectivity up to 1.6T. Qualcomm will also run chip design workloads on Amazon Bedrock. The warrants expire September 3, 2036. This follows Qualcomm's June Dragonfly C1000 data center processor announcement with Meta as a 2028 customer and a $15B fiscal 2029 data center revenue target. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers (with Nvidia and AMD) supplying the EU's AI gigafactories program, though only about EUR 1B of the EUR 30B program is actually committed by Brussels, raising questions about the gap between chip access and genuine European AI sovereignty. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Qualcomm and Amazon custom silicon deal worth? Qualcomm issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4 billion, exercisable at $161.26 per share, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60 billion in Qualcomm server chip and technology purchases. The warrants expire on September 3, 2036. The deal includes multi-generation custom silicon for AWS covering AI inference and optical connectivity up to 1.6T, plus chip design workloads run on Amazon Bedrock. _Track how equity-for-chip-orders deals like this reshape AI infrastructure sourcing on daily.dev._ ### Which chipmakers are supplying the EU AI gigafactories program? Qualcomm, Nvidia, and AMD signed memoranda to supply the EU's AI gigafactories, a program covering up to seven sites and about EUR 30 billion, of which EUR 10 billion is public and roughly EUR 1 billion from Brussels is actually committed. Construction starts early next year, with sites going online in mid-2028 and ten member states interested in hosting. _Follow European AI infrastructure funding and chip supply developments on daily.dev._ ### What is Europe's own data center processor and how does it compare to American chips? Rhea1 is Europe's data center processor, an 80-core Arm design from SiPearl built on TSMC's N6 process. It powered on in May and is due at the end of the year, but goes into the Jupiter supercomputer at Julich rather than to a hyperscaler, unlike the American chips (Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD) supplying the EU's gigafactories. _Keep up with chip sovereignty and infrastructure sourcing debates in AI hardware on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips](https://daily.dev/posts/qualcomm-lands-meta-as-first-named-customer-for-its-dragonfly-data-centre-chips-caoqvxqgf) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Qualcomm bets on cloudy AI. 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