Qualcomm's 2019-vintage AI100 chip finally scores a major deployment — Saudi Arabia's Humain takes delivery of 1,024 systems

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Image credit: Humain/Qualcomm

Qualcomm AI100 Deployment in Saudi Arabia

It’s perfectly normal to think that Nvidia and AMD dominate the AI accelerator space, at least for now. Other companies want a slice of the pie, and Qualcomm is among them. The Snapdragon maker has finally scored a major deployment, installing 1,024 AI100 chips in Saudi Arabia’s Humain outfit, as its CEO announced.

The AI100 was unveiled in 2019 (Tom’s Hardware article) and is now about six years old. It has been available as a drop‑in card since mid‑2023 (Lenovo press release). While it was a promising design focused on power efficiency for inference tasks, its small memory capacity—only 128 GB in the Ultra variant—limits the size of models it can run (reportedly up to 32 B parameters). In 2026 terms, that’s modest, as contemporary reasoning models use tens of times that amount.