Qualcomm pays $1.4B for Nuvia, a server chip designer founded by ex-Apple execs But Qualcomm won't just use Nuvia's high-performance and battery efficient technology for data centers. It plans to bring the innovations to its mobile, computer and auto processors. Listen - 06:39 Nuvia has been trying to change data centers by designing high-performance chips that are more power efficient like mobile processors. Getty Images Qualcomm is betting big on a company designing powerful but power-efficient chips for data centers -- $1.4 billion big. The company on Wednesday said it has reached a deal to acquire Nuvia, a two-year-old startup run by former Apple chip executives.