Cristiano Amon on agentic AI
From LIVE: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon Unveils AI Future at COMPUTEX Taiwan Keynote Event | AI1B · · DRM News
“2026 is the year of agents and it's now how AI is really evolving and is going to get to incredible amount of scale. It is evolve from simply answering prompts and work as a tool that augments how we as humans work with our computers into something that can take action on their own.”
On , Cristiano Amon, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director at Qualcomm Inc, spoke about agentic AI during LIVE: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon Unveils AI Future at COMPUTEX Taiwan Keynote Event | AI1B on DRM News.
About Cristiano Amon
Cristiano Amon has been promoting Qualcomm's expansion beyond mobile chips into data centers, automotive, and other sectors, with a focus on agentic AI. In June 2026, at Computex in Taipei, he described 2026 as "the year of agents" and argued that AI agents will shift the center of a user's digital experience from the smartphone to the agent itself, which will operate across multiple devices. He introduced Dragonfly as a new brand for Qualcomm's data center products and projected $5 billion in data center revenue for fiscal 2027, rising to $15 billion by fiscal 2029, citing customer engagements and the acquisition of Alphawave. Amon also announced a partnership with Meta to use Qualcomm's new CPU and the acquisition of AI startup Modular, which he said could create an "Android type moment" in the industry by offering an open software stack. Amon has stated that the demand for AI tokens is "astronomical" and that the existing computing infrastructure needs a major upgrade. He has emphasized that Qualcomm's technology is differentiated by power efficiency, a design philosophy rooted in battery-powered devices, and a new accelerator that does not require expensive HBM memory. In a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2026, Amon discussed how agentic AI is changing device architecture and called for an open, horizontal platform to enable agents to work across different devices. He has also said that smart glasses could become as large a market as smartphones, with Qualcomm already shipping "multiple tens of millions" per year.
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