
Qualcomm Wins Huawei AI Patent Rights in 5G Accord

Qualcomm Wins Huawei AI Patent Rights in 5G Accord
Qualcomm becomes a net payer to Huawei for the first time as they sign the first 5G cross-license covering AI, compute, and networking patents.
7 stories on Qualcomm since May 1, 2026, newest first.


Qualcomm becomes a net payer to Huawei for the first time as they sign the first 5G cross-license covering AI, compute, and networking patents.


Huawei and Qualcomm's multi-year patent deal covering AI, 5G, and compute pushes Huawei's licensing total past $6.9B, defying US-China tech tensions.


Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip startup Tenstorrent at up to $10 billion, a move that would reshape who controls the future of AI inference hardware.


Qualcomm lands a ByteDance deal to supply millions of custom AI ASICs for Doubao, its biggest AI win yet and a direct challenge to Nvidia data centers.


Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 at CES 2026 brings 18-core CPU compute to humanoid robots, challenging NVIDIA Jetson with Figure AI and Booster as launch partners.


OpenAI is developing an AI-native smartphone with custom chips co-designed by Qualcomm and MediaTek, manufactured by Luxshare, targeting 300–400 million annual shipments by 2028 with an app-free agent interface.


Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 platform targets NVIDIA's Jetson monopoly in humanoid robots, with Figure AI and Kuka as CES 2026 launch partners.