Markham, Ontario, Canada, December 2025 — Anthony Scarpino has started a new role as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, marking a major leadership milestone in the company’s renewed push into high-performance data center computing. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing engineering delivery for data center software and firmware, enabling Qualcomm’s next-generation custom CPU platforms designed for AI-driven workloads.
In his new position as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, Anthony Scarpino is leading the software and firmware strategy for Qualcomm’s re-entry into the data center CPU market. His scope includes enabling custom Arm-based CPUs developed following the NUVIA acquisition, supporting power and performance optimization, reliability, security, manageability, platform firmware (including BMC), and building an open-source ecosystem for customer adoption of Qualcomm data center CPUs.
Prior to this elevation, he served nearly five years as Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, where he played a central role in integrating NUVIA’s world-class CPU capabilities into Qualcomm’s broader product portfolio. His leadership spanned production firmware, pre-silicon OS development, compilers and toolchains, and telemetry software, supporting mobile, client compute, and automotive platforms powered by Oryon CPU cores.
Before joining Qualcomm, Anthony Scarpino was Senior Director of Software Engineering at NUVIA, where he built and led teams responsible for complete server software environments across the full software development lifecycle. Earlier, he spent more than 16 years at AMD, holding senior leadership roles including Senior Director, Cross-Platform Software Development, where he led Apple and Linux software ecosystems and enabled complex graphics and compute platforms at scale. His early career also includes foundational engineering and leadership roles at ATI Technologies and Mobile Computing Corporation.
Anthony Scarpino holds a Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, with academic focus areas including computer architectures and digital video transmission over networks.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global leader in AI, high-performance computing, and advanced connectivity. With nearly four decades of technology breakthroughs, Qualcomm delivers cutting-edge solutions across mobile, automotive, IoT, and infrastructure platforms. Its renewed investment in data center CPUs reflects a long-term strategy to enable AI inference, cloud-to-edge computing, and next-generation digital transformation worldwide.
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