Cristiano Amon chats with Fortune

For decades, Qualcomm has quietly driven the pace of innovation in mobile from helping define wireless standards (2G to 5G) and introducing mobile broadband, to pioneering GPS, over-the-air app delivery, and video streaming on our smartphones. But Qualcomm rarely boasted about these achievements, or the foundational technologies they invent that transform how the world connects, computes, and communicates.

As the same technologies that are at the center of the smartphone are now being used to drive digital transformation across industries, the company has put itself on a path to diversify beyond mobile. In just over a year and half at the helm of Qualcomm, President and CEO Cristiano Amon is making it known that his company is more — much more — than just a mobile company; it is working to enable the billions of devices at the connected intelligent edge.

Recently, Cristiano sat down with Phil Wahba of Fortune to discuss the digital transformation of the automotive, industrial and consumer IOT industries, how the pandemic changed enterprise collaboration, chip supply, the metaverse and the digital divide, and Qualcomm stepping out from its traditional under-the-radar character.