Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced the company is developing over 40 new AI-powered device designs, including jewelry, camera-equipped earbuds, wearable pins, and watches. These form factors emphasize always-on context awareness, enabling seamless interaction with AI agents that understand user intentions and handle complex tasks. Amon predicts AI agents will become the “new app,” shifting the center of digital life away from traditional smartphone interfaces. While phones won’t disappear, new wearable devices will serve as endpoints for agents performing actions like retrieving banking data instantly. This signals a fundamental architectural shift requiring more efficient, specialized chips optimized for on-device AI inference and multimodal processing to support the coming wave of agentic computing.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced the company is developing over 40 new AI-powered device designs, including jewelry, camera-equipped earbuds, wearable pins, and watches. These form factors emphasize always-on context awareness, enabling seamless interaction with AI agents that understand user intentions and handle complex tasks. Amon predicts AI agents will become the “new app,” shifting the center of digital life away from traditional smartphone interfaces. While phones won’t disappear, new wearable devices will serve as endpoints for agents performing actions like retrieving banking data instantly. This signals a fundamental architectural shift requiring more efficient, specialized chips optimized for on-device AI inference and multimodal processing to support the coming wave of agentic computing.