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Company file

Qualcomm

A mature-node and supplier-advance case showing that capacity commitments are not limited to leading-edge AI accelerators.

ClassificationFabless designer
Current verdict

Structured snapshot available; use the filing’s purchase-obligation definition rather than relabeling the whole balance as wafer capacity.

Structured snapshot

Reported exposure

2025-09-28
Commitments$15.1B

Purchase obligations, primarily integrated-circuit suppliers and including multi-year capacity commitments

Near-term amount$10.5B

Due within 12 months

Annual CapEx$1.2B

FY2025 approximate CapEx

Commitment intensity34.1%

Ending commitment stock ÷ annual revenue

Evidence. Verified records · Grade A · S07 · last verified 2026-07-12 UTC dataset.

Comparability. Obligations include purchase commitments with integrated-circuit suppliers. Follow filing definition.

Governed evidence

Claims in the registry

3 records
C017 Registry state: Verified

Qualcomm disclosed $15.1 billion of purchase obligations at September 28, 2025, primarily with integrated-circuit suppliers and including multi-year capacity commitments.

Claim period
At 2025-09-28
Source date
2025
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Follow filing definition.

Open source
C018 Registry state: Verified

Qualcomm disclosed $10.5 billion of purchase obligations due within the following twelve months.

Claim period
Twelve months following 2025-09-28
Source date
2025
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Point-in-time schedule.

Open source
C019 Registry state: Verified

Qualcomm disclosed $1.9 billion of advance payments under multi-year capacity purchase commitments in fiscal 2025.

Claim period
Fiscal 2025
Source date
2025
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Down from $3.0B in fiscal 2024.

Open source

Capacity-control audit

Ten factors, deliberately not scored.

The supplied pack contains no canonical company scores. Each factor remains “not rated” until an evidence record and scoring rationale are published.

  1. Owned critical capacityNot rated
  2. Contract duration and firmnessNot rated
  3. Supplier diversificationNot rated
  4. Second-source readinessNot rated
  5. Packaging and memory controlNot rated
  6. Geographic resilienceNot rated
  7. Customer matchingNot rated
  8. Downside absorptionNot rated
  9. Process or product co-optimizationNot rated
  10. Disclosure qualityNot rated