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Title: Qualcomm CEO: 'Resistance Is Futile' As 6G Mobile Revolution
Approaches

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/04/0033...

At Mobile World Congress, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm argued that the coming
6G networks will power an AI-driven "agent economy," where devices and AI
assistants constantly communicate across the network. "AI will fundamentally
change our mobile experiences," Qualcomm chief executive, Cristiano Amon
says. "It's going to change how we think about our smartphones. Think about
our personal computing. Think about and interact with a car. The car is now a
computing surface. If you actually believe in the AI revolution, 6G will be
required. Resistance is futile." The company says early consumer testing
could begin around the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, with broader rollouts
expected by 2029. Fortune's Kamal Ahmed reports: Akash Palkhiwala is
Qualcomm's chief financial officer and chief operating officer. I spent some
time with him at the company's stand, as his leading engineers took me
through a 6G future where individuals will have real-time information
delivered to them via their glasses. Palkhiwala compliments me on my watch,
which only does one thing. It tells me the time. "6G is going to be the first
time that connectivity and AI come together in the network. What we're
building is the first AI-native wireless network that's ever been built," he
explains. "The traffic that we expect on 6G is way different than what we had
before," says Palkhiwala. "Before, it was all about consumer traffic. We
expect 6G to be driven by [AI] agent traffic. Think about all these use cases
where there are AI agents sitting on various devices -- your glasses, your
watch, your phone, your PC. These agents are going to be talking back and
forth across the network to other agents and services. "The traffic
completely changes. 6G is being built with this idea that the traffic that
goes on the network is not just going to be consumer voice calls or
downloading videos, we're going to have agents talking to each other, so the
reliability of the network becomes very important." On-device capabilities
(the ability of your phone to process far more data); edge computing (locally
sourced IT technology rather than distant data centers); more efficient use
of available bandwidth (AI-enabled load control); and greater cloud access
will all come together to produce a new wireless network. [...] "Today we are
in the application economy," he notes. "On the phone, you want to make a
travel reservation, you go to one application. You want to order an Uber, you
go to a second application. You want to order food, you go to a third
application, movie tickets, etc. The user has to go through that effort. In
the future, you think of the app economy moving over to an agent economy,
where there's one agent I'm interacting with, and I can ask that agent to
book me a movie ticket or a plane ticket, to order food for me, get an Uber
for me. It knows everything about me."

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