Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon delivers a keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Might 19, 2025.
Ann Wang | Reuters
BARCELONA, Spain — Robotics will develop into a “bigger alternative” for Qualcomm inside the subsequent two years, CEO Cristiano Amon instructed CNBC, because the chip large continues its foray into areas past the smartphone.
In January, Qualcomm launched a robotics processor underneath the Dragonwing model identify, because it seems to be to create a chipset that may work on a number of robotics platforms. It is a comparable strategy the corporate has taken to smartphones, the place its Snapdragon processors have develop into a key chip utilized by electronics corporations.
“I believe robotics will begin to get scale inside the subsequent two years,” Amon instructed CNBC on Monday, in response to a query about when robotics turns into a fabric enterprise for Qualcomm.
“I believe it should develop into like a bigger alternative inside two years,” he added throughout the interview on the Cell World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
There are many several types of robots, from these centered on industrial functions akin to robotic arms, by means of to humanoid robots, the kind Tesla and a plethora of Chinese language corporations are creating.
There are numerous forecasts for the dimensions of the robotics market. McKinsey initiatives the marketplace for general-purpose robots may attain $370 billion by 2040, whereas analysts at RBC Capital Markets have forecast a world whole addressable marketplace for humanoids of $9 trillion by 2050.
Robots want processors and plenty of troublesome engineering to maneuver. However the elevated bullishness round robotics has additionally come as a result of advances in AI fashions. These fashions are designed to energy the robotic so it could possibly perceive the world round it and act accordingly. Robots are sometimes spoken about in a class known as bodily AI.
“Folks have mentioned simply robotics alone may very well be a trillion-dollar alternative when it comes to market dimension … the truth is, we see now, due to bodily AI, robots have develop into much more helpful,” Amon mentioned.
Robotics is a key theme at Cell World Congress, with completely different robots on show. On Sunday, Chinese language smartphone participant Honor teased its first humanoid robotic.
