Qualcomm is working on a joint venture in China for server chips

Today announced that Qualcomm chip maker that it has signed an agreement with China's Guizhou Guizhou Regional Government to work on the development of advanced server chips in China jointly, in a move that could help to strengthen the efforts of the company to diversify its business in the market of mobile chips and chips server.

He has both sides to invest jointly in the amount of $ 280 million in the project, called the Hwachsantonj Guizhou name for semiconductor technology, which will be 55 percent of it belongs to the Government of Guizhou province and 45 per cent of it is owned by a subsidiary of Qualcomm.

Qualcomm and works similar to its rival company Advanced Micro Devices, and both the two companies are planning to make data centers rely on existing servers processors on the architecture ARM, a market which is dominated by rivalry Intel.

The Qualcomm had announced in October last year for the presence of samples belonging to the first stage of pre-production processors for servers based on the architecture ARM, and has a direct offer for the development of an experimental server platform, Balttaaon with XILINX chips and Mellanox companies.

The company operates similarly to many other US technology companies desiring to try to take advantage of partnerships with local companies to facilitate access to the Chinese market.

Where the Hewlett-Packard Company sold a majority stake in the work of servers, services, technology and business volume in China is a subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings to increase sales of HP products in government institutions in the country, while Intel Corp. said in 2014 that it planned to invest in the local chip companies to design phone chips mobile.

The joint venture will be registered in Guian New Area district of the province of Guizhou, with the presence of operations in the capital Beijing, and will be limited to the role of Qualcomm chips on the server license technology and provide research and development operations of the joint venture.