Qualcomm is accelerating its data center AI chip roadmap with new products launching in 2025.

Qualcomm on Monday unveiled two artificial intelligence chips designed for data centers as it seeks to diversify beyond smartphones and enter the fast-growing AI infrastructure market. The new chips, called AI200 and AI250, are engineered for improved memory capacity and running AI applications, or inference. The AI200 will be available in 2026, while the AI250 will launch in 2027, according to Reuters.

Global investment in AI chips has surged as cloud providers, chipmakers, and enterprises rush to build infrastructure capable of supporting complex large language models, chatbots, and other generative AI tools. However, Nvidia chips currently underpin much of the AI boom. To strengthen its position in this competitive market, Qualcomm agreed in June to acquire Alphawave, a company that designs semiconductor technology for data centers, for approximately $2.4 billion. Additionally, in May Qualcomm announced it would develop custom data center central processing units that use technology from Nvidia to connect to the firm's artificial intelligence chips.

The San Diego-based company emphasized that the new chips support common AI frameworks and tools with advanced software support, and noted they will lower the total cost of ownership for enterprises. Qualcomm also unveiled accelerator cards and racks based on the new chips to expand its data center offerings. The competitive landscape continues to intensify, as peer Intel announced earlier this month a new artificial intelligence chip called Crescent Island for the data center that it plans to launch next year.