Qualcomm’s expansion away from mobile devices continues. Having found not all that much in the way of demand for IoT devices, it is now chasing that other shiny new market – AI-based processing workloads in the data center. With its new Cloud AI 100 accelerator, a 7nm chip that claims 10x performance per watt than its rivals, Qualcomm is hoping to steal some thunder from Intel, Google, and Nvidia. Intel has been scrambling to find a way to make up for the shortcomings of its x86 CPU architecture in the new workloads demanded by AI and ML tasks – as these tasks favor the parallel computing capabilities of GPUs and FPGAs, which the serial CPUs can’t provide. Nvidia too is…