Full video: Qualcomm CEO on token demand growing 40x by 2030
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-29
This is the full interview video link behind Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon's projection that global token demand will grow 40x — from 31.7 billion per 10 seconds in 2026 to 1.27 trillion by 2030 — driven by AI shifting from human-paced interaction to agent-paced activity, where every useful action carries hidden costs in context carrying, memory updates, sensor interpretation, and error correction.
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