"talking about an exciting thing for an engineer the same snapdragon that goes to a phone and it can go to a galaxy phone for example samsung the same not a special one went all the way to mars you exp..."

"you are originally from brazil so let me ask the most important question the most profound question the biggest question who's the greatest football soccer player of all time look everybody's going to..."

"qualcomm is largely responsible for 5g and some of the greatest processors in our smartphones ever built so we got communication and computation tech that impacts probably billions of people so if you..."

"what do you think they would notice so there's road networks there's all kinds of networks there's uh there's lights that keep popping up cities bringing up like from an alien perspective you're obser..."

"to eliminate all issues with data congestion whether you are in into stadium we talk about soccer you're in a stadium and everyone should be ability to have access to broadband so deal with congestion..."

"the cloud is interesting because the space of everything is constantly increasing that isn't correct you know i don't think the refrigerator over there it looks kind of smart but i don't think it's co..."

"speed there's a bandwidth thing and then there's coverage how many people get to enjoy today and how does the progress in the next 5 10 20 30 50 years you think looks like in terms of coverage great t..."

"call the sub six but you needed more you needed to go to the millimeter wave so that's why five 5g is a technology that you can deploy from 450 megahertz as an example or 600 or 700 all the way to in ..."

"resistance is futile okay so uh for millimeter wave we need density of access points and what's the biggest resistance for qualcomm for human civilization is it uh politicians regulators federal regul..."

"be a conversation with the ceo if i did not ask questions that make you nervous some people raise concerns about there not being enough studies about the effects of 5g on the human body is 5g safe loo..."

"required to close the radio link now also you have a number of organizations the fcc for example has rigorous programs which they do a lot of tests uh to validate uh you know the safety of those devic..."

"however the concern that people have is when you scale technology exponentially how would that change human civilization i mean that doesn't apply to 5g that applies to every technology how you said s..."

"we're connected and then we're building digital twins of everything right so so when you look at that picture when you look at the picture of this connected society you started to have the following t..."

"digital to win uh should peop people and government should think about it so that we get the best of a technology we doubt that any downside yeah so when you say digital twin that's one of the other t..."

"about regulators i think it's a valid point as i said before i think the europeans probably have a very good framework but you know the way the way i'll oh think about it we we depend on have the abil..."

"billions of smartphones over its pretty long history now a decade and a half maybe so it's constantly iterating there's constantly just like a turmoil of beautiful innovations happening so last year w..."

"standpoint ability to get into a single chip of not only all possible connectivity technology from cell alert wi-fi to bluetooth to every single constellation of satellite for position location but at..."

"the and you have to be good to everyone all of those technologies pack it all in and there's also pressure to make the thing faster and faster and faster and then there's more and more applications yo..."

"change christmas you cannot change black friday you cannot change all of the selling season so the phones are going to launch on time and every technology needs to be there the engineer needs to work ..."

"like manufacture before you're not allowed to have any mistakes no wonder our name is quality communications oh i never even thought about the qual part quality so quality and there's a bar that's hig..."

"ecosystem so i'll give an example so you ask me the question how to compete with google it's not about competing with google we're the number one enabler of the google android ecosystem and uh the lar..."

"business we do have an apple relationship we provide modem technology to apple to multi-year relationship apple has been very public that they are uh investing to develop their own modem uh but the qu..."

"okay so excellent can qualcomm also let's take a brief step away from mobile and take on intel and apple and other such companies in the laptop and desktop space so the nature of what a computer is se..."

"the the conversions of mobile and pc and the reason i'm excited about this because you see a lot of things happening that bring this right front and center when you think about the future technology s..."

"that's now the number one uh use case on a pc so now think about that for a second personal computers now their technologies that people when they're going to buy a pc they didn't care much about it n..."

"mobile congress uh recently lenovo they have a line of uh of uh enterprise laptops called the thinkpad i'm sure you're familiar with it so they announced the thinkpad based on snapdragon with 5g on 28..."

"and let me go uh one step more microsoft talking about some of the features they're doing now using on windows 11 using snapdragon remember we talked about a snapdragon has an ai processor inside ther..."

"opportunity think about it it starts with the pc making the pc giving you a better experience for teams but then it goes right back into this trend of connecting physical and digital spaces and all th..."

"computation might you be become a robotics and car company um i will argue we're already an automotive uh company today and uh but let me tell what i what i would like qualcomm to be remember recogniz..."

"qualcomm to be recognized for so by the way for people who are not familiar there's some technical jargon but people use the word edge like edge computing it's by the way that's probably changing what..."

"can make decision in real time provide context information to the cloud to make the models more accurate and as well compare and contrast with the cloud so there's going to be an exponential developme..."

"all that's happening at the end does qualcomm want to be the brain of a lot of autonomous vehicles in the future of different you said brands like mercedes-benz i don't know whatever just whatever car..."

"billions of robots roam the earth in the future among us humans and i am for one concerned in a small percentage but largely i'm excited about that future will qualcomm be uh the thing that powers the..."

"main issue the main issue is it's actually a a long-term growth of digital so what i'm hearing you say is the pandemic was not the cause it was an aggravation it's an aggravation so is there a way we ..."

"with a geographic distributed way which that's how you play in supply chain so those those i think are good things so if anything we learn through the crisis is the semiconductor uh it's important my ..."

"semiconductor space and the semiconductor so licensing is you come up with a pretty good idea you have a bunch of smart people coming up with cool ideas and then once you come up with that idea you se..."

"a company that's involved with a lot of fascinating technologies and it's touching the lives of billions of people a lot of complicated stuff because like i said licensing technologies you have to col..."

"you know how they can have a career or just the life they can be proud of i think the first thing and i'm and of course all of those answers are kind of relate to my own experience right the first thi..."

"what i'm gonna do within the next two years but what do i want to do where do i want to go and uh and i think it's important for people especially young people um is is to really you know have a dream..."

"have to work on and you can say i can if i that's where i want to go next this is the gap i need to do it and it's it's it's faster when you can identify yourself before other people can tell you then..."

"uh what was the whole why did you end up in japan you know i've been uh fortunate enough to work in cellular and wireless my entire career so i i always like communications when i went to engineering ..."

"and i do know that that also i carry a burden i you know i especially for the latino community to be an inspiration for them and make sure i set a good example so not just your your mom and dad but um..."

"whole thing i asked you about aliens observing us what what's the meaning of life cristiano what's the meaning of life easy questions that's not an easy question at all uh i think that's uh that's the..."

"of us i'm a big believer that technology is at the end the force for good and if just look if you just look you know not trying to move away from a deep discussion to a more uh specific technical one ..."

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