Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon discuss the company’s diversification beyond mobile chips, its foray into data centers, the need for AI spending, the vision for agent 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 and hear, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon.
During an appearance on “Mornings with Maria,” Amon described a future where super-fast 6G networks will allow smart glasses to stream information to AI models in real time. He said this change could reshape the technology industry and everyday life.
“6G will turn us all into mobile cameras because we have the ability, everything we see, to send to AI models that will communicate with us and get intelligence quickly,” Amon said on Friday. “And that’s an exciting new device category.”
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Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon delivered a keynote speech at Computex 2024 on June 3, 2024, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Qualcomm is known for creating technology inside devices such as smartphones, which allow them to connect to the Internet. Earlier this week, Qualcomm announced its latest partnership with Meta to support the company’s rapidly growing computing needs.
Amon identified smart glasses as a key device of the future, saying they allow people to interact with technology close to their face while AI processes what users see and hear.
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“There is something very exciting about glasses, and Meta is right, there are many other companies investing in this,” he said.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wore the Meta Ray-Ban Display AI smart glasses during the Meta Connect event on Sept. 17, 2025, in Menlo Park, California. Meta has launched its first smart glasses with a built-in display as part of our growing presence (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“As we humans begin to interact with computers the way we communicate with ourselves, glasses are a very important place because they are close to our eyes, our ears, our mouth. And AI [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 Apple have all invested in developing their own smart glasses, with new models incorporating artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Meta announced a new line of affordable AI glasses powered by the company’s AI technology, Muse Spark.
A man tries 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 is also expanding its focus on data centers and AI software. It has introduced a new “Dragonfly C1000” processing unit that it says is powered by Meta. The company also plans to acquire AI startup Modular.
“I was reading a lot of analyst reports from Investor Day, and there was one headline that really caught my attention and caught my attention. There was a headline that said, ‘This is no longer your father’s Qualcomm,'” Amon said of the changes. “And I think that’s a company issue.”
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