Qualcomm Inc (QCOM) may lose Apple Inc's (AAPL) business, but gains momentum from booming Chinese smartphone sales & Samsung share gains. Bullish outlook with $200 target.

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) was in focus on Tuesday as J.P. Morgan placed the semiconductor company on a positive Catalyst Watch ahead of its fiscal first-quarter earnings results on Feb. 5. Shares rose 1.

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Qualcomm has expanded its application partnerships to include Moises App, DJay Pro, Steinberg Cubase, and Capture One to take down Apple's supremacy in the art world.

Qualcomm‘s latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, is built using TSMC’s third-generation 3nm (N3E) process. It seems like Qualcomm is staying with a reliable partner for its next chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2,

Internal discussions and court documents reveal that Arm has been exploring these strategies since 2019. CEO Rene Haas has been a vocal advocate for change, expressing frustration with the company’s reliance on major customers and pushing for greater control over its technology.

Arm Holdings is developing plans to increase prices by up to 300% and has discussed manufacturing its own chips.

Qualcomm's diversification into automotive, IoT, and AI sectors is driving revenue growth, boosted by on-device AI and solid financial performance. See more here.

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is dead set on winning a significant portion of the PC CPU market. The company's Arm-based Snapdragon X chips are efficient and powerful, and they can run Microsoft Windows and most standard Windows applications without issue thanks to an emulation layer.

We see potential for Qualcomm in 2025 with Samsung partnership, but Apple's 5G modems could impact revenue. Read more on QCOM stock here.

The server CPU market has long been dominated by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Both companies make chips based on the x86 architecture. While there are other types of CPUs used for specialized purposes -- think IBM mainframes -- x86 reigns supreme in the data center.

Activist investor Starboard Value has acquired a 7.7% stake in Qorvo, a NASDAQ-listed maker of radio frequency and power semiconductors. The acquisition comes as Qorvo grapples with stiff competition and slowing orders for its smartphone chips,