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Nakul Duggal

Executive Vice President and Group General Manager of Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, and Robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm

Search every verified Nakul Duggal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Nakul Duggal has been a prominent voice in discussions about the future of automotive technology, physical AI, and India's role in the semiconductor industry. At Qualcomm's Automotive Technology & Cooperation Summit 2026, he stated that the company decided three years ago to "overdimension the silicon" and build a single platform capable of handling both infotainment and ADAS workloads, arguing that separating the two systems would be "unnatural" given the pace of AI expansion. He described this approach as enabling a "Flex" architecture that allows customers to run cockpit and ADAS capabilities concurrently on the same system-on-chip. At the Automobil-Elektronik Kongress in Germany, Duggal said the industry is moving from software-defined vehicles to "AI-defined vehicles," and emphasized that original equipment manufacturers will continue to own the customer relationship and orchestrate the in-car experience. Duggal has also spoken extensively about physical AI and robotics. During Qualcomm's Investor Day 2026, he described physical AI as "the next great computing wave" that will run on the edge in factories, warehouses, and hospitals, and predicted that a $300 billion addressable market will grow to over a trillion dollars within a decade. In a conversation with NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger, Duggal said that automating what humans do in a heterogeneous physical environment is a "new concept" that is being explored rapidly, and that "the future will not be decided on screens." Regarding India, he told CNBC-TV18 that the country has a "fantastic future in manufacturing for electronics" and that it is a "great time for India to be investing" in diversified supply chains. He also predicted that autonomous vehicles will enter the Indian market soon, describing the car as a "robot" that will serve as either a personal conveyance or a hailed transportation service.

Recent appearances

  • Qualcomm's Vision For India's Autonomous Vehicle Future And Semiconductor Growth

    July 30, 2026 · 📺 CNBC-TV18

    Qualcomm is betting big on India's semiconductor ecosystem and the future of autonomous mobility. The company outlined its vision for advancing self-driving vehicle technologies, AI-powered automotive solutions, and next-generation chip innovation, while highlighting India's growing role in the global semiconductor value chain. Watch the full report to understand how Qualcomm sees India's potential in shaping the future of mobility, semiconductor manufacturing, and cutting-edge technology.#cnbctv18digital #Qualcomm, #AutonomousVehicles, #SelfDrivingCars, #Semiconductors, #ChipManufacturing, #…

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  • AEK 2026: Qualcomm on the Future of AI in Automotive

    July 22, 2026 · 📺 Qualcomm

    During the Automobil-Elektronik Kongress in Germany, Nakul Duggal, EVP and GP of Automotive, Industrial, and Embedded IoT and Robotics at Qualcomm, took the stage to discuss how AI is changing the automotive experience. Highlights from the keynote include: • How Snapdragon Digital Chassis is enabling agentic experiences inside the car • The shift to AI-defined vehicles • The demand for heterogeneous compute in today’s driving environment Learn more: https://www.qualcomm.com/automotive #AI #Snapdragon #ADAS

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  • NEURA Robotics Executive Talk | Nakul Duggal (Qualcomm) on Physical AI

    July 14, 2026 · 📺 NEURA Robotics

    Physical AI needs more than Vision-Language-Action models to work in the real world. In episode 2 of the NEURA Executive Talk, NEURA Robotics founder and CEO David Reger sits down with Nakul Duggal, EVP and Group GM at Qualcomm, to talk about reflex speed and why machines need to learn from the physical world, not the other way around. They dig into why Vision-Language-Action models alone fall short, and how NEURA is solving reflex speed in cognitive robots operating in the real world. The NEURA Executive Talk brings together the people shaping what comes next. Follow NEURA Robotics: Linked…

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  • Livestream: Qualcomm Investor Day 2026

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 Qualcomm

    Qualcomm invites you to join us for Investor Day 2026, live from New York on June 24th, 2026 at 2:15 PM ET. Qualcomm executives will outline the next phase of the company’s growth and diversification strategy amid the rapid evolution of AI followed by a live Q&A. Tune in to hear President and CEO Cristiano Amon discuss how Qualcomm is capitalizing on major platform shifts in AI that create opportunities across gigawatt‑scale data centers, the rapid development of industrial AI and physical AI, personal AI for agentic workloads, and 6G as the next generation of wireless. Disclaimer and Cauti…

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  • Qualcomm Auto Summit 2026: 10B+ On-Device LLM – Is the Car Truly Becoming an AI Agent?

    June 08, 2026 · 📺 A Slice of China

    The underlying ecosystem of smart vehicles is undergoing a massive paradigm shift, driven entirely by this main stage Keynote! At the recently concluded Qualcomm Automotive Technology & Cooperation Summit 2026, Qualcomm executives fully unveiled the industry's ultimate evolution—vehicles are no longer just "Software-Defined," but are moving completely into the era of "Central Computing" and "On-Device Physical AI." Timestamps: 00:00 Nakul Duggal, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Automotive, Qualcomm 05:45 Liu Yu, Vice Chairman of BAIC Group 18:10 Zhang Jianfeng, Chairman of Banma…

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  • Stellantis, Qualcomm Expand Partnership for Vehicle Tech

    May 22, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Qualcomm's head of Automotive, Robotics and IoT Businesses Nakul Duggal said that the new vehicle technology partnership the semiconductor company announced with Stellantis will allow the automaker to modernize technology across the board and move fast as the automation and self-driving landscape grows. Duggal said that the automotive industry is moving quickly and he sees more intelligent cars becoming out over the next few years. -------- Watch Bloomberg Radio LIVE on YouTube Weekdays 7am-6pm ET Saturday & Sunday 7am-10am ET WATCH HERE: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF Follow us on X:   / bloomber…

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  • ET9 Talks Ep 48 Dialogue with Mr Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President at Qualcomm #nio

    April 30, 2026 · 📺 Wealthy Mindset

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  • ET9 Talks Ep.48: Dialogue with Mr. Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President at Qualcomm

    April 30, 2026 · 📺 NIO_William LI

    ET9 Talks Ep.48 is LIVE! Great catching up with Mr. Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President at Qualcomm, at Auto China 2026.

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  • MWC26: Nakul Duggal on Physical AI and the Future of Robotics

    March 18, 2026 · 📺 Qualcomm

    At #MWC26, Nakul Duggal, EVP and Group GM, Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, and Robotics at Qualcomm, joined the panel Robots Among Us: Are We Ready for Embodied AI? to explore how humanoid robotics and embodied AI are moving beyond the lab and into real world environments • How breakthroughs in perception, mobility, and manipulation are accelerating #physicalAI adoption • Addressing the challenges of deploying robotics across different environments • Safety, accountability, standardization, and human like behavior in embodied systems To learn more about how Qualcomm is powering the…

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  • Mobility As a Digital Lifestyle Product | Nakul Duggal (Qualcomm) & Pranay Agrawal (Fractal)

    March 18, 2026 · 📺 Not Just AI

    In this episode of the Not Just AI Podcast, Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Fractal, speaks with Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President and Group General Manager for Automotive, Industrial IoT, and Robotics at Qualcomm. Together they explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced computing are transforming the future of mobility and the automotive industry. The conversation covers Qualcomm’s journey into automotive technology, the rise of software-defined vehicles, and how digital cockpits are reshaping the in-car experience. Nakul also shares insights into the rapi…

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  • BMW Neue Klasse & Qualcomm: Building the Future of Autonomous Driving | IAA MOBILITY 2025

    March 04, 2026 · 📺 IAA MOBILITY

    Discover the inside story of the groundbreaking three-and-a-half-year partnership between Qualcomm Technologies and the BMW Group. In this Tech Deep Talk from IAA MOBILITY, Nakul Duggal (Group General Manager, Automotive at Qualcomm) and Dr. Mihiar Ayoubi (Senior Vice President Driving Experience, BMW Group) detail the development of the autonomous driving stack launching with the highly anticipated BMW Neue Klasse. This session explores the immense complexity and scale required to transition autonomous driving from a simple demo into a consumer-ready, global product. Key Highlights from the…

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  • The View from Davos with Qualcomm’s Nakul Duggal

    January 26, 2026 · 📺 Six Five Media

    00:01:09 – Why Edge AI Matters at Global Scale 00:02:31 – Nikul’s Impressions of Davos 00:03:24 – The Evolution of Edge Technology 00:05:28 – Qualcomm’s Growth in Automotive and Industrial Sectors 00:06:17 – Recent Announcements and Innovations 00:10:23 – Qualcomm’s Competitive Edge in Robotics 00:13:29 – Looking Ahead to 2026: Strategy and Focus Areas Edge AI, Physical Intelligence, and the Path to Scalable Automation AI conversations at Davos often start in the data center. This one doesn’t stay there. From Davos, Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sit down with Nakul Duggal, EVP and Group…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think India has a fantastic future in manufacturing for electronics, for SMT, for semiconductors. If you think about the state of geopolitics, if you think about the need for multiple diversified supply chains, I think this is actually a really great time for India to be investing in everything that it is doing.”

“What is today a $300 billion addressable market is going to become over a trillion dollars within the next decade. Right now while we see automotive and industrial as very large stamps we expect this to invert where robotics will actually become very large. This is the market that we are going to lead.”

“The industry moves from software-defined vehicles to AI-defined vehicles, these kinds of partnerships are going to be game-changing. So again very happy with the way that our partnership has evolved with Banma, a lot more to come in this space.”

“The root architecture gives you the best of both worlds. It allows you to be able to take cockpit capabilities and ADAS capabilities and run them concurrently. It allows the work more importantly the software work, the hardware work, the testing, the ability to be able to build a model that is running on our silicon, make it binary compatible, allow it to be moved from one silicon to the next silicon, fundamentally a”

“We've been growing at about 25% plus over the last many years. And we really see automotive as this definition of what a physical product looks like.”

“We are going to exit at 526 at a $6 billion of annualized revenue, which, you know, has grown up attacks over the last six years.”

Other executives at Qualcomm

  • Cristiano Amon, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director
  • Don Mcguire, Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer
  • Akash Palkhiwala, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
  • Ziad Asghar, Vice President of Product Management of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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