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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm, world-leader in 5G wireless communication and computation systems inside premium Android phones and other robots. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(06:43) – Football/soccer
(07:38) – Smartphones
(10:09) – 5G
(26:27) – Snapdragon
(32:45) – Apple and Google
(37:19) – Future of Qualcomm
(48:20) – Autonomous vehicles
(50:05) – Robots
(52:31) – Chip shortage
(56:40) – Lawsuits
(1:00:07) – Leadership
(1:04:26) – Advice for young people
(1:08:17) – Meaning of life

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Kishiano Aman, the CEO of Qualcomm.

0:05.4

The company that's one of the leaders in the world in the space of mobile communication

0:09.8

and computation.

0:11.5

That's 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G that connects billions of phones and the Snapdragon processor and

0:19.0

system on a chip that is the brain of most of the premium Android phones in the world.

0:25.8

And now a quick use that can mention of each sponsor.

0:28.7

First of all, in the description is the best way to support this podcast.

0:32.2

We got Scale from Machine Learning, True Bill for Savings, by Optimizers for Health,

0:38.8

for Sigmatic for Coffee and Fundrise for Investing.

0:42.6

Choose wisely my friends.

0:44.1

And now onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle.

0:47.4

I tried to make this interesting, but if you skipped them, please do check out our sponsors.

0:51.3

I enjoyed their stuff.

0:52.8

Maybe you will too.

0:54.8

This episode is brought to you by Scale.

0:57.0

The Machine Learning Assisted Data Labeling Platform.

1:00.0

Scale Rapid works with any use case or task, including image, video, text, annotation and

1:06.7

classification, 3D data, and supports 20 plus languages.

1:13.2

I've given a ton of lectures about this.

1:15.2

I've said this over and over and over and over again, but to me, data, the selection of

1:23.1

high quality data is an art form.

1:25.9

There's a science, is an engineering craft, and is the thing that makes the difference

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