Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon kicked off Computex 2026 on Monday (June 1) with a bold vision for an agent-centric AI future.
Delivering the opening keynote at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 2, Amon outlined how Qualcomm is restructuring its hardware philosophy around continuous AI agents that operate across six billion smartphones, two billion wearables, two billion PCs, and half a billion vehicles.
He highlighted that AI agents, not smartphone operating systems, are becoming the true centre of the digital experience.
“The AI agent is becoming the true centre of the digital experience,” said Amon.
This architectural shift demands entirely new hardware priorities with high-efficiency CPUs for system orchestration taking precedence alongside dense NPUs and GPUs, all constrained by strict edge power requirements.
Enter the Dragonfly
The session also marked the official launch of Dragonfly, the company’s new data centre product brand for data centre processing developed in collaboration with major global hyperscalers. This is arguably Qualcomm’s most serious push into data centre infrastructure, complementing its existing dominance at the edge.
Physical AI is on the rise and earned a dedicated robotics pavilion showcasing physical AI’s transition from laboratory to real-world deployment at Computex 2026, which ends today. Qualcomm is scaling edge silicon from sub-two-milliwatt earbuds to AI-defined vehicles and robotics, with massive sensor integration enabling real-time digital twins of entire cities that feed continuous data back to localized agents.
“AI will extend beyond large data centres, increasingly being processed directly on the devices that consumers use daily,” said Amon.
While updating on developments in 6G, he quipped, “6G is going to make all of us walking cameras.”
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