Qualcomm Says the AI Correction Does Not Apply to It
Amon argues Qualcomm is a new data-centre entrant, so the selloff is not its story, while flagging wafer, substrate and packaging shortages.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said at the Yahoo Finance Invest summit on 12 November 2026 that the AI sector’s correction does not apply to his company, because Qualcomm has only just entered the data-centre business, and that wafer, substrate and packaging capacity are tight across the chain, with energy infrastructure lead times out of step with compute delivery. The commercial read is positioning: in a selloff triggered by one company’s leadership shock, chipmakers with automotive and edge exposure are trying to decouple their multiple from the pure AI narrative. One caveat — this account rests on a single secondary report and I could not independently verify the quotes.