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Under CEO Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm is pursuing a strategy to expand beyond mobile and position itself at the center of intelligent computing.
A primary mission for Cristiano Amon upon becoming CEO was to complete Qualcomm's transition from a licensing company with a chip business to a semiconductor company with a licensing business.
Qualcomm's diversification strategy includes entering the PC, industrial, robotics, and data center markets.
Cristiano Amon believes a major shift is occurring from a smartphone-centric computing model to an agent-centric one, where a device's value is determined by its AI agent's capabilities.
Qualcomm predicts it will have 6G silicon available in 2028.
Qualcomm predicts the first commercial 6G systems will be deployed in 2029.
Qualcomm's automotive business has been growing at a rate of 30% year-over-year.
Cristiano Amon predicts that 2026 will be the "year of agents," when AI agents will become more popular and demonstrate significant usability.
Cristiano Amon believes the future of technology belongs to powerful, energy-efficient computing built directly into edge devices.
In 2018, then-CEO Steve Mollenkoff appointed Cristiano Amon as President of Qualcomm with the intent of preparing him as his successor.
Cristiano Amon became CEO of Qualcomm on June 30, 2021.
Qualcomm was the first company to create a 1 GHz CPU, named Scorpion, capable of running a high-level operating system on a phone.