Qualcomm CEO. President Cristiano Amon discusses the company's diversification beyond mobile chips, its entry into data centers, the demand for AI spending, outlook on agentic AI and more on 'Mornings with Maria.'
The next era of mobile technology will turn everyday Americans into "walking cameras" as AI-powered smart glasses monitor everything they see. hear, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon.
During an appearance on"Mornings with Maria,"Amon described a future in. ultra-fast 6G networks will allow smart glasses to stream information to AI models in real time. He said the shift could reshape both the technology industry and everyday life.
"6G is going to transform all of us into walking cameras because we have the ability to, everything that we see, send it to AI models that will interact with us. get intelligence right away," Amon said Friday. "And that's an exciting new device category."
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Qualcomm President. CEO Cristiano Amon delivered the keynote address at Computex 2024 on June 3, 2024, in Taipei, Taiwan.(I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Qualcomm is known for creating technology inside devices such as smartphones, allowing them to connect to the internet. Earlier this week, Qualcomm announced its latestpartnership with Metato support the company’s rapidly growing computing needs.
Amon pointed to smart glasses as a key device for the future, saying they allow people to interact with technology close to their faces while AI processes what users see. hear.
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"There’s a very interesting thing about glasses,. Meta is correct, and there’s many other companies investing in this," he said.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wore a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI smart glasses during the Meta Connect event on Sept. 17, 2025, in Menlo Park, California. Meta introduced its first smart glasses featuring a built-in display as part of its expanding we(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
"As we humans start to interact with the computers the way we interact with ourselves. glasses is a very important real estate because it's close to our eyes, our ears, our mouth. And AI is [going to] see what we see, hear what we hear, read what we read. And then you have this intelligence very quickly."
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Meta, Google and Applehave all invested in developing their own smart glasses, with newer models incorporating artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Meta announced a new line of lower-cost AI glasses powered by the company's AI technology, Muse Spark.
A man tried on AI smart glasses during the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai on June 24. 2026.(Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Qualcomm has also expanded its focus into data centers and AI software. It introduced a new"Dragonfly C1000"central processing unit that it says Meta is using. The company also plans to acquireAI startup Modular.
"I was reading a lot of the analyst reports from Investor Day,. there's one headline that really, I really liked it and it caught my attention. There's a headline that said, ’This is not your father's Qualcomm anymore,’" Amon said of the changes. "And I think that's kind of the story of the company."
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