Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, wants to “deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world.” And he’s calling on Qualcomm to help power it.

The San Diego chipmaker on Wednesday revealed Meta as its first major data center customer, announcing the partnership at an Investor Day event in New York City. The announcement is the latest sign that Qualcomm, best known for smartphone processors and modems, is aggressively targeting the data center market.

Investors had been awaiting the announcement since the company’s second-quarter earnings call, when Qualcomm first hinted at a deal with a major cloud computing company.

On Wednesday, they found out it was Meta.

The two companies announced a “multi-generation roadmap,” under which Qualcomm will supply Meta’s growing computing demands. Qualcomm will begin shipping its new data center central processing unit, the Dragonfly C1000, in 2028.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“We’re thrilled to build on our partnership with Meta, expanding from devices to data center,” said Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, during the event. “And this is just the beginning.”

The Dragonfly C1000 is designed for agentic AI workloads, prioritizing computing performance at low power levels — Qualcomm’s specialty.

“We’re excited to continue partnering with Qualcomm,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. “We’re quickly building the infrastructure we need to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world.”

Qualcomm has spent the past year building out its data center business as it braces for the end of its Apple partnership, slated for April 2027.

The Meta deal helped ease investor concerns about that transition. Qualcomm announced that non-handset revenue in 2029 will reach $40 billion, up from a prior projection of $22 billion.

Qualcomm expects to deliver “meaningful revenue at the end of this calendar year, starting fiscal quarter one, 2027,” said Tony Pialis, executive vice president of Data Center at Qualcomm.

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