Cristiano Amon
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Oct 7, 2026
Neil BarbourHOST
Kagan and Qualcomm flew me out to Hawaii for three days for the Snapdragon Summit 2026, and this is what Qualcomm's actual hardware and its partners have to say about where personal AI is really headed.
Neil BarbourHOST
CEO Cristiano Amon said in his opening keynote, "We are just now at the beginning of the agentic age, and Snapdragon is the platform built for it."
Cristiano AmonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And what it makes this very interesting is whether the agent runs on the device or built into the OS, it now needs to do a lot of coordination across models, apps, services, and data.
Cristiano AmonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But your experience, to be useful, need to remain very intuitive, instant secure, and needs to be always available.
Julian WongHOST
Among the companies determining that future is Qualcomm, the semiconductor leader whose chips power many of the devices in our lives, from smartphones to automobiles.
Julian WongHOST
Cristiano Amon, who marks his fifth anniversary as CEO this summer, is responsible for steering the 41-year-old communications company through a pivotal time.
Julian WongHOST
He recently joined The CEO Moment, our new interview series, to talk about where AI is heading next and how he plans to keep his company competitive.
Julian WongHOST
You've said, "I tell my team we are in the gladiator business." Do you honestly say that? The reason I use this analogy is because if you're a gladiator, you go to the Colosseum, there's going to be three outcomes.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
But within a few minutes, everyone in that audience would be stunned.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
No. What? Did he just say that their chips were faster than the chips from Apple and Intel? And it uses less power? How could this be possible? The speaker, Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm president and CEO, could read the stunned faces of the audience, and he stated in his thick Brazilian accent, yes, take a photo, take a photo.
Cristiano AmonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our Orion CPU exceeds the M.2 Max in... [applaudissements] It's faster than any leading ARM compatible competitor in a single-threaded CPU performance.
Cristiano AmonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take a photo, take a photo.
John CooganHOST
Uh, but yeah, it was a stacked, stacked list.
John CooganHOST
There's a lot of folks, uh, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Anna Brockman, uh, Sergey Brin, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Cristiano Amon from Qualcomm, our guest this week, made it to the dinner, came back from Hawaii, David Solomon from Goldman Sachs, tons of other folks, uh, ExxonMobil.
John CooganHOST
It was really a who's who of the global economy.
John CooganHOST
Um-
John CooganHOST
There's a lot of folks.
John CooganHOST
Uh, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Anna Brockman, uh, Sergey Brin, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, uh, Cristiano Amon from Qualcomm, our guest this week, made it to the dinner, came back from Hawaii.
John CooganHOST
David Solomon from Goldman Sachs.
John CooganHOST
Uh, tons of other folks.
Mark LevinHOST
We have Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO.
Mark LevinHOST
We have Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO.
Mark LevinHOST
We have Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon, and his wife.
Mark LevinHOST
We have Jeff Yass, TikTok.
Jason HowellHOST
I've been through the demo area and checked out a bunch of the technology that's on display there.
Jason HowellHOST
And I would have to say that the real theme this year, and actually Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon called this out from stage, calling it, Snapdragon anyways, the processor for the agentic age, lots of references to the AI smartphone and what that means in 2026, like what is an AI smartphone? And I think really at the end of the day, it's just that we're so used to using these smartphones in our pockets as these devices that we go to to do things.
Jason HowellHOST
We pull it out because we have a thing we want to do, and we do it.
Jason HowellHOST
And what Qualcomm has been pointing out here is that there's a real shift happening right now.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
South Lawn ceremony, four hundred and seventy-nine troops, a B-2, and four F-22s overhead.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
Then the bilateral, then a state dinner tonight with the technology and finance executives, Altman, Jensen Huang, Cristiano Amon on earlier reporting.
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What Xi brings to that table is now on the record from Reuters, three sources.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
He'll press the president to halt arms sales to Taiwan under the nineteen eighty-two communique.
Brian SullivanHOST
That's not all.
Brian SullivanHOST
The CEO of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon, also dropping in for a visit.
Brian SullivanHOST
We'll talk about Snapdragon, chips, and
Kelly EvansHOST
more.
Brian SullivanHOST
Its new AI push, apparently an investor, Muse.
Brian SullivanHOST
Muse, also the name of Meta's just launched new personal AI agent.
Brian SullivanHOST
And in just a few hours, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage to tout more on Muse.
Brian SullivanHOST
And he and employees and investors, they have plenty to celebrate.
Rob BlackHOST
I know that there's some companies who might have more aggressive technology.
Rob BlackHOST
But Qualcomm CEO, Cristiano Amon, Which, if there's one thing I regret my parents did, was they named me Robert.
Rob BlackHOST
Why not name me Cristiano? It's a better name.
Rob BlackHOST
And then my parents gave me a horrible middle name.
Rob BlackHOST
Don't want to mention it on air.
Rob BlackHOST
But Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon was on CNBC Today.
Rob BlackHOST
And he said, AI agents need to be trusted that they're working on the user's behalf.
Rob BlackHOST
I agree with that.
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