Qualcomm Just Nearly Doubled Its Most Important Growth Target, Confirming Its Place as a Key AI Stock

Yahoo Finance · 2026-06-27

Qualcomm ( QCOM 7.58% ) has spent years trying to convince investors it can be more than a smartphone-chip company. At its investor day on Wednesday, it made its boldest case yet. The company nearly doubled its target for non-handset revenue in fiscal 2029, raising the goal to about $40 billion from $22 billion. And for the first time, it put hard numbers behind its data center ambitions, calling for more than $15 billion in data center revenue by that same year. Investors liked what they heard, and shares jumped sharply on the news, rising as much as 15%. The figures are bold for a company whose chips still sit mostly inside phones. But raising a target is the easy part. The harder question is whether Qualcomm, a relative latecomer to the data center, can build a business of this size in a market that Nvidia already dominates. Qualcomm's diversification push isn't new, but the scale of it is. The company's prior $22 billion non-handset goal, set in 2024, was already meant to loosen its dependence on smartphones -- a maturing market where it also faces the gradual loss of Apple as a modem customer as the iPhone maker shifts to its own in-house modem products. The new $40 billion target nearly doubles that ambition.

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Qualcomm's stock jumped as much as 15% after the company raised its non-handset revenue target to $40 billion by FY2029 at an investor event and, for the first time, set a data center revenue goal of >$15 billion. This nearly doubles the prior $22 billion target and signals an acceleration of a strategy to reduce smartphone dependence and reorient growth pillars. However, competition with data-center incumbents such as NVidia and the revenue-erosion risk from Apple's modem insourcing coexist, meaning that achieving the targets will require strong execution and ecosystem expansion. The market expects a re-rating of QCOM's valuation and the expansion of server, networking, and software partnerships to determine future share-price momentum.

상승 영향

AI Semiconductors — QCOM's >$15 billion data center target implies entry into the AI accelerator market, directly providing growth momentum for AI semiconductor sales and related IP and software partners.
Data Center Infrastructure — The planned expansion of data center revenue will increase demand for servers, networking, power and cooling, producing knock-on benefits for equipment vendors and data center service providers.
Edge and Mobile AI Solutions — Raising the non-handset target is likely to stimulate demand for chips and modules for automotive, IoT, and edge AI, improving profitability across related solutions and software ecosystems.

하락 영향

Mobile Semiconductors (modems/smartphone — Apple's modem insourcing and smartphone market maturity are shrinking QCOM's core revenue base, which could put downside pressure on near-term revenue and margins.
Data Center Accelerator Competition — Under the dominant market share of incumbents like NVidia, a new entrant must endure massive R&D and ecosystem investments and long sales cycles to gain share, creating significant execution risk.

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