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Composition of Certain Financial Statement Items (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 28, 2026
Condensed Financial Information Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventories |
Inventories (in millions) |  |  |
| June 28, 2026 |  | September 28, 2025
Raw materials | $ | 682 |  |  | $ | 336 |
Work-in-process | 5,005 |  |  | 3,985 |
Finished goods | 2,692 |  |  | 2,205 |
| $ | 8,379 |  |  | $ | 6,526 |
Other Current Liabilities |
Other Current Liabilities (in millions) |  |  |
| June 28, 2026 |  | September 28, 2025
Customer incentives and other customer-related liabilities | $ | 2,762 |  |  | $ | 1,948 |
Income taxes payable | 557 |  |  | 1,007 |
Other | 958 |  |  | 1,201 |
| $ | 4,277 |  |  | $ | 4,156 |
Schedule of Short-Term Debt |
Short-term Debt (in millions) |  |  |
| June 28, 2026 |  | September 28, 2025
Commercial paper | $ | 498 |  |  | $ | — |
Current portion of long-term debt | 1,991 |  |  | — |
| $ | 2,489 |  |  | $ | — |
QCT Revenues Disaggregated | QCT revenue streams were as follows (in millions):
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  |  |  |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025
Handsets (1) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 5,086 |  |  | $ | 6,328 |  |  | $ | 18,934 |  |  | $ | 20,831 |
Automotive (2) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,588 |  |  | 984 |  |  | 4,015 |  |  | 2,904 |
IoT (internet of things) (3) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,830 |  |  | 1,681 |  |  | 5,244 |  |  | 4,811 |
Total QCT revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 8,504 |  |  | $ | 8,993 |  |  | $ | 28,193 |  |  | $ | 28,546 |
(1) Includes revenues from products sold for use in mobile handsets. (2) Includes revenues from products sold for use in automobiles, including connectivity, digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD). (3) Primarily includes products sold for use in the following industries and applications: personal AI and compute (including personal computers (PCs), extended reality (XR) and other personal computing devices) and industrial, networking and robotics (including mobile broadband, wireless access points, handhelds, retail, tracking and logistics, and other commercial and home applications).
Revenue recognized from performance obligations satisfied in previous periods | Revenues recognized from performance obligations satisfied (or partially satisfied) in previous periods generally include certain sales-based royalty revenues related to system software, certain amounts related to customer incentives and licensing revenues recognized related to devices sold in prior periods (including revenues resulting from certain settlements and adjustments to prior period royalty estimates, which include the impact of the reporting by our licensees of actual royalties due) and were as follows (in millions):
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025
Revenues recognized from previously satisfied performance obligations | $ | 165 |  |  | $ | 189 |  |  | $ | 417 |  |  | $ | 691 |
Customer Concentrations - Revenues | Revenues from each customer/licensee that were 10% or greater of total revenues were as follows:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025
Customer/licensee (x) | 23 | % |  | 18 | % |  | 24 | % |  | 20 | %
Customer/licensee (y) | 20 |  |  | 21 |  |  | 20 |  |  | 21 |
Customer/licensee (z) | * |  | 13 |  |  | * |  | 13 |
*Less than 10%
Investment and Other Income (Expense), Net |
Investment and Other Income, Net (in millions) |  |  |  |  |  |
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025 |  | June 28, 2026 |  | June 29, 2025
Interest and dividend income | $ | 97 |  |  | $ | 160 |  |  | $ | 347 |  |  | $ | 495 |
Net gains on marketable securities (1) | 726 |  |  | 204 |  |  | 605 |  |  | 241 |
Net gains on other investments | 19 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 237 |  |  | 30 |
Net gains on deferred compensation plan assets | 149 |  |  | 84 |  |  | 135 |  |  | 65 |
Impairment losses on other investments | (38) |  |  | (52) |  |  | (61) |  |  | (93) |
Equity in net earnings (losses) of investees | 66 |  |  | (4) |  |  | 149 |  |  | 13 |
Other | (5) |  |  | (39) |  |  | 46 |  |  | (3) |
| $ | 1,014 |  |  | $ | 358 |  |  | $ | 1,458 |  |  | $ | 748 |
(1) Primarily consist of net unrealized gains related to certain marketable equity securities.

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