Cristiano AmonPresident & CEO, QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)
10 recorded appearances
In TIME's CEO Moment series, Amon discussed his trip to China with President Trump, where AI is heading next, and how he intends to keep Qualcomm competitive as it moves beyond handsets.
Amon explained the Modular acquisition as the software-stack piece of a full-stack data-center play, on the day Qualcomm nearly doubled its 2029 non-handset revenue projection.
Amon told Arjun Kharpal that AI agents will displace apps as the center of the digital experience, that Qualcomm is working on roughly 40 new AI device designs including jewelry, camera earbuds and pins, and that apps will evolve rather than vanish.
Themed 'The Year of Agents', Amon argued continuously running agents demand new hardware — high-efficiency CPUs for orchestration alongside dense NPUs and GPUs under edge power limits — and introduced Dragonfly, Qualcomm's data-center processing brand built with hyperscalers.
With Jon Fortt, Amon said China smartphone sales should bottom in the current quarter and framed AI as the reason handset content per device keeps rising.
A long-form career conversation: Amon traced his path from electrical engineering student in Brazil to Qualcomm CEO and explained the strategy of pushing intelligent computing from device to edge to cloud.
Amon's shareholder-meeting remarks on diversification and long-term strategy — enabling intelligence at the edge and everywhere, from personal devices to data centers to robots.
Amon's MWC Barcelona keynote arguing 6G should be designed around AI workloads from the start rather than retrofitted, setting out his view of the next decade of wireless.
With Caroline Hyde at CES, Amon called physical AI the next big wave, pointed to industrial robotics as the opportunity, and argued cars are becoming digital products and personal AI devices the new mobile platform.
Interviewed at Davos by Adam O'Neal, Amon said Qualcomm is 'betting big' on robotics and pressed the case for a resilient semiconductor supply chain amid U.S.–China competition.