On August 31, Qualcomm rose 3.3% in regular trading, trading at $169.58/share, with turnover of $180 million. The rally was driven by a dual catalyst: imminent chip price increases and progress in commercializing its proprietary HBC near-memory architecture.
On the pricing front, Qualcomm is set to officially raise chip prices starting September 1. CEO Cristiano Amon stated the move aims to pass upstream supply chain cost increases to downstream customers and restore gross margins to historically normal levels. The company had previously disclosed a tiered pricing strategy, with flagship chip prices expected to rise 10%-15%, mainstream chips up 5%-7%, and entry-level chips seeing approximately 2% increases.
On the technology front, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix recently announced a partnership with Qualcomm to advance HBC chip commercialization. According to Qualcomm, HBC delivers 6x the bandwidth-per-watt compared to HBM in large batch processing and 200x the capacity-per-watt versus SRAM, opening significant new growth potential in data center markets. Cloud service providers have already expressed interest in the technology.
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