SAN FRANCISCO (Jan 13): Qualcomm Inc, the world’s biggest provider of smartphone processors, said it’s buying server chip design startup Nuvia Inc for US$1.4 billion. The move adds a team led by former Apple Inc chip design head Gerard Williams, founder of Nuvia, that was developing high-performance server silicon. Qualcomm didn’t specify what products the team will work on other than to say it’ll help the company’s existing Snapdragon portfolio and create chips “that serve multiple industries.”