21s lead investors include U.S. venture-capital heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and RRE Ventures, along with Chinese private-equity firm Yuan Capital, with a strategic stake going to chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.QCOM -1.13% through its venture-capital unit.
https://www.cbinsights.com/investor/qualcomm-ventures2015-03-10 21 Inc Series A - II $111M Andreessen Horowitz, Dara Khosrowshahi, Data Collective, Drew Houston, Jeff Skoll, Khosla Ventures, Mark Pincus, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, RRE Ventures, and Yuan Capital
They are funding it (21 Inc, whatever the will be doing), not taking an active part in it, so no (insert buzzword salad) inside qualcomm chips.
Also that (insert buzzword salad) 21 inc would be doing looks to be probably mining:
https://www.cbinsights.com/company/21e621 Inc, formerly 21e6, is a stealth company that aims to manufacture Bitcoin ASIC. Company (Alive / Active)