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Ziad Asghar

Vice President of Product Management of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Qualcomm

Search every verified Ziad Asghar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ziad Asghar, Qualcomm's Senior Vice President and General Manager of XR, Wearables, and Personal AI, appeared at Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, where he discussed the company's push into personal AI and AI-native devices. In interviews with TIRIAS Research and AR Insider, he described Qualcomm's approach to on-device AI, including running one-bit multimodal models on devices to reduce memory requirements, and outlined a hybrid strategy that balances edge and cloud processing. He also highlighted Qualcomm's work on privacy features, such as indicators for camera and recording use, and stated that the company is developing around 40 devices with partners across North America and China. During his keynote on Day 2 of the summit, Asghar announced the Personal AI Health Alliance, a program with global healthcare leaders aimed at developing proactive healthcare solutions using personal AI. He also emphasized the role of voice as a key interface for smaller devices like earbuds and pendants, and positioned Snapdragon as a platform spanning milliwatt to kilowatt power ranges, which he said gives Qualcomm a unique breadth among semiconductor companies. He framed the current era as one driven by new human-machine interfaces, with personal AI devices requiring a complete technology foundation for sensing, understanding, and responding efficiently.

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“With privacy we want to be able to give all the power to the consumer to use exactly or to give as much access as they want to give. So here is some of the technologies that we're working on to actually make this very seamless. To give credit to our current partners, they've done a good job, right? You take a picture, the light comes on, tells you that somebody's taking your picture. If somebody's recording, you have”

“I'll put it this way. We have about 40 different devices that we're working on today across North America cloud vendors, China cloud vendors, a long tail of companies that are doing and building some amazing devices, and there are form factors that we have thought about, and there are form factors that we haven't thought about. And but our portfolio allows them to be able to build all of those. So, huge huge amount o”

“I think the way to think about it is Qualcomm is unbelievably unique in the sense that we make solutions for products that are in the milliwatt range to kilowatt range. As you know, we recently announced our move into data center like products as well. So, this spread and the way that our technologies can scale gives this breadth is you cannot find that anywhere else in any other semiconductor company at this point i”

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

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