Organization

Qualcomm

Qualcomm is a chip designer and developer platform company headquartered in San Diego, California2. This catalog lists 1 software project from Qualcomm, under licenses including the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License.

Documented roles: Chip designer · Developer platform

Qualcomm develops semiconductors and licenses its patent portfolio. Its annual report names on-device AI among its foundational technologies, including the Hexagon NPU in Snapdragon platforms. It also sells data center products, including rack-scale AI inference accelerators under the Qualcomm Dragonfly brand.1 6 3

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Oct 1, 2026

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Website: qualcomm.com (external site: qualcomm.com)
Legal name: QUALCOMM Incorporated2
Ownership (separate from openness): Publicly traded
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Delaware corporation (incorporated in California in 1985 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1991)1 2
Headquarters: San Diego, California2
Founded: 19851
Sectors: Chips

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Qualcomm publishes the Qualcomm AI Hub Models code on GitHub under the BSD 3-Clause license. The models packaged there keep the licenses of their original implementations. AI Hub Workbench features such as compiling and on-device profiling require a Qualcomm account.7 8 9

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

Qualcomm: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Qualcomm Dragonfly AI accelerators (AI200, AI250, AI300) (external site: qualcomm.com)	Hardware	Rack-scale AI inference platforms sold under the Qualcomm Dragonfly data center brand, alongside a data center CPU, optical and electrical connectivity DSPs, custom silicon, and software including an AI infrastructure management suite and the Cloud AI SDK; the page directs buyers to Qualcomm sales.3	Sep 29, 2026
Qualcomm Hexagon NPU (external site: qualcomm.com)	Hardware	Neural processing unit for on-device AI inference, part of the Qualcomm AI Engine in Snapdragon platforms; Qualcomm lists laptops, smartphones, and XR devices that use it.4 1	Sep 29, 2026
Qualcomm AI Hub (external site: aihub.qualcomm.com)	Developer tool	Web platform for converting, quantizing, profiling, and deploying models on Qualcomm devices, with a library of pre-optimized models; developers sign in to AI Hub Workbench to compile and test models on hosted devices.5 7	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Frameworks (1)

Qualcomm AI Hub ModelsSoftwareAvailability: Public

Organizational relationships

Subsidiary: Modular

Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.

Notable documented facts

Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Alphawave IP Group plc, a developer of high-speed wired connectivity IP, custom silicon, and connectivity products, on December 18, 2025, as part of its expansion into data centers.2
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular Inc, whose software platform is meant to run AI workloads across different hardware architectures, on July 28, 2026, and announced the closing on July 29, 2026. The announcement says Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud continue as products and brands.2 6
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, runs substantially all of the company's engineering, research and development, and product businesses, including Snapdragon; Qualcomm Incorporated holds the licensing business and most of the patent portfolio.6

In the news

Dated, sourced updates in this catalog's news that mention this entry.

Aug 13, 2026 · Governance
Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems initiative becomes an Open Compute Project workstream
Lightmatter announced on August 13, 2026 that the Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems initiative, first announced earlier in the year, has launched as an official workstream within the Open Compute Project. The coalition's members include Dell Technologies, Qualcomm and Lightmatter, and the initiative has published a white paper titled "Architecture Vision: Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems." Lightmatter says the paper will guide the development of a shared co-packaged optics (CPO) blueprint for AI clusters that comply with the Modular Hardware System (MHS) and Open Rack v3 (ORv3) designs. The release says submission of the first specifications is anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Jul 28, 2026 · Ownership
Qualcomm completes its acquisition of Modular
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular Inc on July 28, 2026, according to its quarterly report, and the closing was announced on July 29. Modular's announcement says Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud continue as products and brands, supported through Qualcomm Technologies. The Modular record now lists Qualcomm as its parent company, and Modular remains the maintainer of the Mojo and MAX records.

What this catalog does not know

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U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

QUALCOMM Incorporated is a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices in San Diego, California, per the cover page of its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 28, 2026.2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

1.
QUALCOMM Incorporated Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Nov 5, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
QUALCOMM Incorporated Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 28, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Jul 29, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Qualcomm Data Center Products | Qualcomm Dragonfly (external site: qualcomm.com)
Qualcomm · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Qualcomm Hexagon NPU | Snapdragon NPU Details (external site: qualcomm.com)
Qualcomm · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Qualcomm AI Hub (external site: aihub.qualcomm.com)
Qualcomm · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Modular (external site: qualcomm.com)
Qualcomm · Announcement · published Jul 29, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
qualcomm/ai-hub-models README (external site: github.com)
Qualcomm (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
qualcomm/ai-hub-models LICENSE (external site: github.com)
Qualcomm (GitHub) · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026
9.
Qwen3-4B model README in qualcomm/ai-hub-models (external site: github.com)
Qualcomm (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
10.
Official careers page (external site: qualcomm.com)
Qualcomm · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Qualcomm},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/qualcomm/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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