Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm. Amon joins Big Technology to discuss what the AI device of the future looks like—and why he thinks the next wave of personal computing will move beyond the smartphone. Tune in to hear his vision for AI-powered glasses and wearables, what a truly useful agent experience requires, and why he believes the “winner at the edge” will shape the AI race. We also cover AI PCs and what will actually drive adoption, Qualcomm’s push into AI inference in the data center, the state of robotics and industrial AI, and where China may be pulling ahead. Hit play for a Davos-front-row conversation on where AI is heading next—and the chips and constraints that will determine how fast it gets there.
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#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon believes his company is perfectly positioned for the world economy of the future, connecting everything from phones to exercise bikes to cars. And he predicts we’re about to see AI-assisted cars deployed at a “mass scale.” Fully autonomous vehicles, he concedes, will take longer — perhaps 5 or 10 years — but he says it’s in everyone’s interest to make an intermediate level of assisted driving available in every vehicle on the highway, not just premium cars like Teslas.
In this episode, Cristiano and Joubin discuss Cristiano’s brief diversion away from Qualcomm in venture capital, connecting smart devices, endurance and reinvention, growing up in Brazil, work-life balance, self-driving cars and vintage sports cars, making the “Star Wars hologram” real, digital twins, and introversion vs. extroversion.
In this episode, we cover:
The semiconductor supply chain, and manufacturing chips in the US & EU (10:00)
Why Qualcomm is in the “gladiator business” (14:30)
Making time for your family and your health (18:57)
Measuring Qualcomm in two-year and ten-year cycles (21:28)
The incremental steps from today’s assisted driving to fully autonomous cars (24:41)
Virtual reality, augmented reality, smart glasses, and the metaverse (30:31)
Cristiano’s time demands and the difference between impatience and being in a hurry (36:41)
Loving your job and making space for everything else (40:38)
Links:
Connect with CristianoTwitter
LinkedIn
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LinkedIn
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This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation systems inside premium Android phones and other robots. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:43) – Football/soccer
(07:38) – Smartphones
(10:09) – 5G
(26:27) – Snapdragon
(32:45) – Apple and Google
(37:19) – Future of Qualcomm
(48:20) – Autonomous vehicles
(50:05) – Robots
(52:31) – Chip shortage
(56:40) – Lawsuits
(1:00:07) – Leadership
(1:04:26) – Advice for young people
(1:08:17) – Meaning of life
Rapid Response: Scaling when you’re already at scale, w/Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon
As the global chip shortage unfolded last year, Qualcomm’s engineers quickly redesigned their products – an effort that tapped into “every possible capacity we could find,” says CEO Cristiano Amon. Their story is a great lesson in how an established company can and must move with the speed of a startup. One key to moving at speed, says Amon: aligning the entire organization around a single strategy. But along with an all-hands effort, he insists, must also come time to rest. “Everything's new, everything's always changing, we have to move fast, but at the end of the day, we also need time for ourselves and our family,” he reminds us.
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Almost every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip inside. Where does CEO Cristiano Amon go from here?
Cristiano Amon is the president and CEO of Qualcomm, and he’s always been a relentless cheerleader for what mobile computing can do for people — especially if that mobile computing is powered by Qualcomm’s chips.
Links:
Apple supplier TSMC confirms it’s building an Arizona chip plant
Intel will make Qualcomm chips in new foundry deal
The Verge 5G landing page
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022
Qualcomm’s next-gen CPU for PCs will take on Apple’s M-series chips in 2023
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22640552
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott with and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Apple announces AirPods Max / Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon interview
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch discuss Apple's announcement of their AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones and give their first impressions.
Second half of the show, Nilay and Dieter talk with Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon about Qualcomm's new flagship processor the Snapdragon 888, the potential of 5G, and what he thinks about Apple's new M1 processor.
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