AI Takeover: Qualcomm’s Big Bet on AI Agents, Robots and 6G | Titans and Disruptors
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What is Qualcomm’s history and why is it so deeply embedded in today’s devices?
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Welcome to the edge of possible. You may not have heard of Qualcomm, but you have definitely used their products. Many major smart device manufacturers use Qualcomm's technology, ranging from physical chips in our phones to the 4G, 5G, and soon 6G networks that connect them. But in the lightning fast tech industry, what's cutting edge today can become obsolete tomorrow. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Aman is prepared to bet the farm to stay ahead.
If you look about companies in the mobile industry, to every generation of wireless, there was a big cemetery of companies and uh we're still here.
Cristiano credits the 40-year-old company's success in part to its culture of reinvention. In Cristiano's five years as CEO, the company has evolved from one that's highly smartphone dependent to one that's working in automotive, robotics, and wearable AI.
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I met with Cristiano at Qualcomm's high-tech headquarters in San Diego. Robot incoming. He's giving us a big warning. To discuss how Cristiano and Qualcomm are building what could be our next primary device after the smartphone. I'm Alison Chantal, and this is Fortune 500, Titans and Disruptors of Industry. We'll be back with Cristiano after a message from our sponsor.
Fortune spoke with Deloitte US CEO Jason Gersadas on understanding quantum computing and how he sees it transforming industries. Quantum computing has been a topic for some time in research circles, certainly closely watched by business, but it's fundamentally a different computing paradigm that uses the principles of physics instead of mathematics to drive the computing outcomes. And I think the real uses will be ultimately around very complex optimization. scenarios, uh uh further enhancements to scaling machine learning, and also very complicated simulations that could be relevant to a whole host of different business applications. What steps should leaders take to prepare their organizations for quantum computing?
It's really about readiness planning right now and preparing an organization to understand the implications, understanding what skill sets would be required, what type of uh cybersecurity protocols would need to be in place to make it viable in an enterprise context and begin to think about the types of use cases that would be uh very germane around optimization and simulation.
Cristiano, thank you so much for sitting with us for the Fortune five hundred Titans and Disruptors podcast. You are sitting in the center of the universe of AI. I'm not sure that people realize quite how much Qualcomm is embedded in pretty much everything that they use from a device standpoint. Can you maybe just give us some size and scale to it? You're one hundred and seventeen on the Fortune five hundred. About five billion devices are powered by Qualcomm chips. And counting. And counting. So So uh kind of t give us some scale to what you're doing here.
Yeah, but by the way, thank you for taking the time. Very happy to be here talking to you. Look, Qualcomm's a very unique company. We used to say before people got to hear about Snapdragon, we used to say Qualcon's probably the biggest company, nobody knows about it. I think when we started it was about creating the fundamental technology that everybody uses now. I think uh for wireless. Uh we have been into every generation of wireless, but as as you look at what happened with the wireless revolution, And then I think you look at our smartphone right now as a most inseparable device. our technology basically propelled by the scale. Of the mobile industry starts to go in many different places. And I think in today, I think Welcome not only is in the smartphones, I think we enter into the PC space, we are into uh the wearable space, those future personal AI devices.
We're going very large scale business on an automotive.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Qualcomm’s history and why is it so deeply embedded in today’s devices?
0:01–7:11
2
How is Qualcomm positioning itself for the AI‑driven future beyond smartphones?
7:11–14:28
3
What does the transition to 6G mean for AI, connectivity and new use cases?
14:28–19:55
4
How will personal AI agents change the way we interact with wearables and smart devices?
19:55–25:01
5
What role will AI‑powered robotics play in automotive and industrial markets?
25:01–31:04
6
How is Qualcomm diversifying its revenue streams across data‑centers, automotive and IoT?
31:04–36:16
7
Why does Cristiano Amon remain techno‑optimistic about AI’s impact on society?
36:16–41:21
8
What are the biggest challenges and opportunities for trust, privacy and regulation in the AI era?
41:21–49:05
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