Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end
Qualcomm has announced new hardware and software platforms, including Snapdragon Reality Elite, aimed at powering AI-integrated wearables like smart glasses. The company is positioning these technologies to replace smartphones as the primary computing platform.
Why it matters
Qualcomm's strategic pivot signals a major shift in the consumer electronics industry toward AI-native wearable devices and away from traditional mobile handsets.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won t be a phone at all.
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