Qualcomm on Monday unveiled two artificial intelligence chips for data centers, with commercial availability from next year, as it pushes to diversify beyond smartphones and expand into the fast-growing AI infrastructure market.

Qualcomm’s new AI200 and AI250 chips likely have a significantly higher core count than its consumer NPUs. Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell Ultra includes over 20,000 cores, or about 1,000 times more than the NPU in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

Available beginning in 2026, the AI200 is both the name of Qualcomm’s individual AI accelerator and the full server rack it slots into, complete with a Qualcomm CPU. The AI250 is Qualcomm’s next-generation AI accelerator and server coming in 2027. A third chip and server are scheduled for 2028.

The company is launching chip-based AI accelerator cards for AI inference and data center racks, and is counting Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain as its first customer.

Qualcomm has been notably left out of the AI party. A deal with Saudi Arabia seems to have gotten the chip maker a foot in the door. Qualcomm’s share price surged 12% Monday after the company announce

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On Tuesday, Samsung Electronics launched the Galaxy XR headset, leaning on Google’s AI tools. The Galaxy XR was co-developed with Google on the software side and with Qualcomm, which supplied the chip powering it.