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Qualcomm Doubles Fiscal 2029 Non-Handset Revenue Target to $40B — Meta CPU Partnership and $3.92B Modular Acquisition Mark Chipmaker's AI Data Center Pivot

Qualcomm more than doubled its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue target to $40 billion from $22 billion at its Investor Day, announcing Meta Platforms as its first data center customer for the Dragonfly C1000 CPU and a $3.92 billion all-stock acquisition of AI software startup Modular. Shares rose roughly 9% in regular trading after surging 15% in after-hours Wednesday, with data center alone targeted at $15 billion by 2029. Microsoft Azure also confirmed deployment of Qualcomm's High-Bandwidth Compute technology.

Meta Platforms Tries to Rebound After 5.4% Slide to $567.58 — AI-for-Work Product Lead Exit Still Weighs

Meta Platforms shares attempted a premarket rebound Thursday after tumbling 5.4% to $567.58 on Wednesday, a drop that erased roughly $83 billion in market value. The slide followed Reuters reporting that Emily Dalton Smith, the executive leading Meta's AI-for-Work product effort, is departing the company just two months after being named to the role. Investors are weighing the departure against Meta's already-elevated 2026 capital expenditure forecast of $125 billion to $145 billion.

Meta and CoreWeave Seal $21 Billion AI Cloud Deal Through 2032, Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin

CoreWeave and Meta Platforms announced an expanded $21 billion agreement on Thursday to provide AI cloud computing capacity through December 2032, including early deployments of NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin platform, bringing total Meta commitments to CoreWeave to $35 billion and signaling surging long-term demand for AI infrastructure.

Meta Platforms Surges on Report of 20% Workforce Reduction to Offset Surging AI Infrastructure Costs

Meta Platforms shares climbed more than 2% Monday after Reuters reported that top executives have directed senior leaders to begin planning layoffs affecting at least 20% of the company's roughly 79,000 employees — a move analysts say would be the largest restructuring since Meta's 2022 'Year of Efficiency.' The cuts are designed to offset the company's $115 to $135 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, driven by a massive push into generative AI infrastructure and the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Lab.

AI Relief Rally Lifts Tech as Meta-AMD Chip Deal Offsets Workday's Weak Outlook

U.S. technology stocks staged a broad-based relief rally Wednesday, with the Nasdaq 100 rising more than 1% as sentiment recovered from a deep AI disruption-driven selloff that had gripped the sector for weeks. Advanced Micro Devices surged roughly 9% after Meta Platforms disclosed a multiyear partnership to purchase millions of AMD chips, while Workday tumbled 7% after issuing a cautious revenue forecast that stoked fears about AI's impact on legacy enterprise software pricing models.

Meta Seals Multiyear AMD Partnership, Deploying 6 Gigawatts of Instinct GPUs for AI Data Centers

Meta Platforms has inked a landmark multiyear agreement with Advanced Micro Devices to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct graphics processing units across its artificial intelligence data center infrastructure. The deal, which includes a performance-based warrant granting Meta the right to acquire up to 160 million AMD shares, lifted AMD stock by more than 6% in Tuesday trading and signals a significant diversification away from Nvidia among hyperscale cloud operators.