Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Key Points:

• Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed the company is developing over 40 AI wearable devices, including jewelry, camera earbuds, pins, and watches, signaling a strategic shift away from smartphones as the primary computing platform.
• Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon Reality Elite platform for mixed-reality glasses, offering significant performance improvements in GPU, CPU, and NPU, enabling faster AI interactions and enhanced visual experiences with 4.4K per-eye resolution at 90 fps.
• The company also launched the Scalable Turnkey AI-Ready Toolkit (START), a hardware and software solution with a white-label program to help manufacturers quickly bring AI-enabled smart glasses and other wearable devices to market.
• Early partners in the START program include eyewear makers Inspecs and O’Neill, with plans to expand support to multiple device form factors beyond smart glasses.
• Amon emphasized the broad experimentation with wearable AI devices that provide constant contextual awareness and AI agent access, positioning Qualcomm as a key silicon provider for the post-smartphone era.