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An Arduino board, which is built using a microchip, is featured. The Qualcomm winners are working to innovate technology for microchip design, self-driving vehicles and artificial intelligence. (William Gauvin/Daily Bruin staff)

Anduril, the defense tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, just unveiled BlueChip – a laptop that’s not just assembled in America, but built entirely from US-manufactured components. Partnering with Qualcomm, the company is taking on what many considered impossible: breaking China’s stranglehold on critical computer components. The move signals a dramatic shift in how Silicon…

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. And by that, he doesn’t just mean assembly, but the production of every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.

QUALCOMM affirmed a quarterly cash dividend of US$0.92 per share for December 2026 while reporting a 16.67% year on year decline in diluted EPS, a 20.00 P/E ratio and a 2.03% dividend yield, alongside weaker operating margins.

Qualcomm is collaborating with domestic AI startups to expand the industrial AI and robotics ecosystem. The company aims to broaden its on-device AI technology, which has primarily focused on smartphones, to include robotics and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in industrial settings.

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) closed at $174.43 on October 12. The stock has returned 32.9% during the last six months, compared to a 21.2% return for the Insider Monkey Billionaire Index and 14.0% for State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust.

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire robotics software company PickNik to strengthen its Physical AI and robotics strategy. Financial terms were undisclosed. PickNik, known for its MoveIt motion planning framework and MoveIt Pro platform, will be integrated into Qualcomm’s Dragonwing robotics platform and the Arduino ecosystem. This acquisition completes Qualcomm’s software-to-hardware stack, expanding its developer ecosystem…

The keynote kicking off Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui had the latest forecast for how AI agents will organize our lives through the phones in our pockets. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon spent some time walking viewers through how the agents will buy things for them, preparing for the day when AI will have access to…