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Cristiano Amon

Chief Executive Officer, President & Director, Qualcomm

Search every verified Cristiano Amon interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm's CEO and president, has been promoting the company's vision for AI-powered devices at the Snapdragon Summit and in media appearances. He stated that the company now has "clarity what an AI smartphone looks like," describing phones with agents that can operate on users' behalf, and announced new chip platforms, including the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 family and a chip with an AI co-processor. Amon said he expects smartphone demand to recover as AI agents give consumers a reason to upgrade, and he discussed Qualcomm's expansion into data centers, automotive, and robotics, noting the company's focus on energy-efficient compute. He also addressed a recent deal with Amazon Web Services involving warrants, saying it reflects Qualcomm's transformation and provides Amazon an opportunity to participate in the company's upside. Amon also discussed Qualcomm's position in China, saying consumer AI adoption is happening "very very fast" there compared to the United States, where frontier model development and enterprise adoption dominate. He highlighted partnerships with Chinese smartphone makers and companies like Liquid AI, which is deploying local AI systems on Snapdragon chips in cars. In interviews, Amon said Qualcomm "still doesn't get full credit for computing" and that its industrial vision has been misunderstood, while emphasizing that he schedules his most important meetings at the end of the day and that a CEO can delegate responsibility but never accountability.

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“The smartphone market has yet to recover what the market was before the pandemic. The market is still smaller now, it's artificially smaller but still smaller than what used to be in 2019. The market has been somewhat still recovering from what the market used to be and there's a number of factors for that. I think one of it is of course is a great thing everybody in the world has a smartphone so it became a mature m”

“The next wave is going to be local AI. Why? Because every year we have more than 2 billion processors getting built that can host a foundation model on top of around the world. Every year 2 billion devices. This is an untapped opportunity. It takes the qualities that I mentioned to really enable that local AI revolution. And off of these processors, I think Qualcomm is like best positioned because you own a whole lot”

“Look, we made an acquisition of a company and that's a great team. It's the modular team. I think the founder is Chris Lattner. I think he's probably a legend within the computer science world. He was the inventor of the Apple Swift programming language. He was the inventor of LLVM and he built a stack which is like CUDA but is designed to work on any hardware doesn't matter CPU accelerators and will run on Nvidia on”

“I think people may be thinking too much into this. This is a you know, the warrants it it's a very simple exactly all within our 10-Q, but basically is there is an understanding now that, you know, Qualcomm is a company under transformation. We're going to all the different markets. Data center is another one. It did create the great upside opportunity. And it's an opportunity for for Amazon to participate into that ”

“I'll say our vision on industrial has been probably misunderstood. I think the investors been tracking the numbers but uh they kind of misunderstood what it is. Um and when we say for example demand is actually bound by the availability of solutions I think for the average person is when a AI arrive and AI is going to change everything it's going to change how you're going to buy how you're going to pay and there's a”

“No, look uh uh that's it's a great topic conversation. I think there are two topics. One topic I'll be specific on the question. I it's a crescendo right yes we we always got credit for mobile we got credit for communications uh we don't yet get full credit for computing and um we didn't get any credit when we said we're going to go automotive you know people said you didn't buy NXP you're not going to be successful ”

Other executives at Qualcomm

  • Don Mcguire, Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer
  • Akash Palkhiwala, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
  • Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President and Group General Manager of Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, and Robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
  • Ziad Asghar, Vice President of Product Management of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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