{"id":1047403,"date":"2026-11-06T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047403"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:35:56","slug":"qualcomm-shares-slump-9-as-weak-smartphone-chip-sales-overshadow-data-center-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/qualcomm-shares-slump-9-as-weak-smartphone-chip-sales-overshadow-data-center-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm shares slump 9% as weak smartphone chip sales overshadow data-center momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm shares dropped over 9% in early trading on Thursday after the company&#8217;s smartphone chip sales missed Wall Street estimates, raising concerns that weakness in its core handset business could offset gains from newer growth in areas such as data-center chips. <\/p>\n<p>If losses hold, Qualcomm is on track to shed over $17 billion in market value. <\/p>\n<p>* The chipmaker has been caught between rising memory costs fueled by surging data-center demand and slowing smartphone sales, as AI infrastructure spending absorbs supply across the semiconductor industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm shares dropped over 9% in early trading on Thursday after the company&#8217;s smartphone chip sales missed Wall Street estimates, raising concerns that weakness in its core handset business could offset gains from newer growth in areas such as data-center chips. If losses hold, Qualcomm is on track to shed over $17 billion in market value. * The chipmaker has been caught between rising memory costs fueled by surging data-center demand and slowing smartphone sales, as AI infrastructure spending absorbs supply across the semiconductor industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047426,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047403\/revisions\/1047426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}