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Qualcomm's Phone Chief Talks RAMageddon and AI

Qualcomm's Phone Chief Talks RAMageddon and AI17 jul45 min

This week Jason Howell and Ron Richards sit down with Chris Patrick, Qualcomm's SVP and GM of Handsets and a 30-year company veteran, for a deep dive into the state of mobile. Patrick opens up about RAMageddon, how surging memory prices are squeezing phone costs at every level, and what Qualcomm is doing to innovate through it with techniques like model compression.

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0:00 Intro

1:36 Introducing Chris Patrick from Qualcomm

3:42 Interview Begins

5:13 What Phone Does Qualcomm's Boss Carry?

6:55 What Would've Been Impossible 30 Years Ago

9:36 AI Becoming the New Phone UI

13:00 On-Device AI: Perception, Reasoning, Action

17:05 Engineering Chips for Foldables

19:57 Inside the Qualcomm-Samsung Partnership

23:18 Galaxy Unpacked Preview