Qualcomm has officially become the owner of Nuvia, the processor company formed by former Qualcomm engineers. Apple, effectively finalizing the acquisition announced in January of this year and concluding a US$1,4 billion transaction (R$7,85 billion, in direct conversion).

In a statement published on its official website, Qualcomm confirmed that, now as owner of Nuvia, it will inherit all of its human capital, showing a special interest in the company's engineering team. Furthermore, the company now led by Brazilian Cristiano Amon (Steve Mollenkopf announced his retirement in January) confirmed that it intends to use the acquisition to produce computers with its own processors as early as the second half of 2022 – specifically, they will be “laptops designed for high performance”.

“Nuvia’s global expertise enhances our processor roadmap, extending Qualcomm’s technology leadership position across the Windows, Android and Chrome ecosystems,” said Amon. “The broad support from this acquisition across the industry validates the opportunity we have to deliver differentiated products with leading CPU performance and power efficiency as the demand for computing power increases in the 5G era.”

Nuvia Team Integrates with Qualcomm Employees

With the acquisition, Nuvia’s team will join Qualcomm’s workforce, with the company’s CEO, Gerard Williams, now taking on the role of senior vice president of engineering. “We are thrilled to join forces with the industry’s leading wireless innovator, driven by a shared mission to invent breakthrough technologies,” he said. “Together, we will create a new category of high-performance computing platforms, setting a new standard for quality in the market.”

Qualcomm, now the owner of Nuvia, is preparing to enter into direct competition with Apple, which has, since the beginning of 2020, abandoned its long-standing partnership with Intel and favored the manufacture of Apple Silicon, its own line of processors based on ARM technology – the same one that Qualcomm uses for its chipsets.