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Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon: ‘You have to bet the company’

A surge in pandemic demand challenged the tech boss to secure supplies of its chips — as well as planning a future in the metaverse

Cristiano Amon is awfully friendly for the head of a company known for its battles with Apple, Broadcom, and antitrust enforcers from Beijing to Washington.

The Brazilian-born 51-year old has been described as “gregarious”, “passionate” and “optimistic about everything.” In his San Diego office there is a life-size cut-out of the engineer, his smiling face and an outstretched hand forming a thumbs up.

Amon is chief executive of Qualcomm, a $192bn designer of semiconductors whose Snapdragon chips power almost all premium Android devices. Its modems give 5G connectivity to anything built by Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and OPPO.

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