6G networks<\/a> will supercharge these sensing capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIf you have smart glasses, they see what you see, so the connectivity needs to enable a very fast uplink,\u201d he said. \u201c6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not creepy at all then. It\u2019s no wonder Meta is so keen on making smart glasses a thing. Agentic AI adoption becomes yet another funnel by which data can be used to serve you ads.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t stop there. If Amon is to be believed, realtime AI analysis of 6G radio waves will allow for even more pervasive prediction models.<\/p>\n
Each radio connection, he explains, will be like a radar, and by tracking and triangulating hundreds or millions of these connections, network operators will be able to generate a digital twin of your neighborhood, city, and eventually country.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re going to detect on every road, every car, every bicycle, every truck, every pedestrian,\u201d he explained. \u201cYou can actually identify those objects.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like most things in modern society, this shift will be driven by economics. \u201cResistance is futile,\u201d the chip exec said.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because for this vision of the future to be economical, the agents can\u2019t just run in the datacenter. Each of these devices will be responsible for offloading varying degrees of the workload.<\/p>\n
For example, an agent harness might run on your smartphone\u2019s CPU. Smaller, less complex tasks might run on a local model on the device’s NPU or GPU, while more complex tasks might run at the network edge or a neighboring datacenter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And to Qualcomm\u2019s credit, while local AI can offer greater privacy, that\u2019s only true so far as the software vendor\u2019s willingness to respect it. Last we checked, Google\u2019s business model revolves around turning telemetry gathered from your digital life into targeted advertising.<\/p>\n
Amon claims that distributing the load can drive down costs by as much as 4x.<\/p>\n
And if done right, it will be entirely transparent, much like how most users have no idea how much they already rely on cloud compute until they toggle airplane mode on their phones.<\/p>\n
Naturally, all of this is going to need new software and hardware, and according to Amon, Qualcomm is already well positioned to build it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt plans, it executes, you verify, will keep interacting with it until the task is done, and that by definition changes the hardware,\u201d Amon said. \u201cIf it is challenging to make your phone last all day with you operating it, what happens when you and the agent are operating it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now have the ability to build systems that are sub two milliwatts from an ear bud with micro power Wi-Fi that connect to an agent for personal AI audio devices all the way to kilowatts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The latter end of that refers to Qualcomm\u2019s Dragonfly datacenter-scale compute platform, which Amon teased toward the end of his keynote.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow with Dragonfly, our portfolio spans every single tier of the compute continuum, from the smallest wearables that will connect to agents to datacenters at a very high performance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But for details we\u2019ll have to wait until Qualcomm\u2019s investor day on June 24. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMPUTEX 2026 In his Computex keynote speech this week Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon offered a glimpse of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}