# Qualcomm: company

Canonical ID: `1cf371e3-b377-4556-88d9-6cc9c35db3d0`

## Key facts

- **Company:** Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM); founded 1985; CEO Cristiano Amon
- **Robotics Platform:** Qualcomm RB (Robotics) Platform - RB1, RB2, RB3 system-on-modules for IoT and robotics; integrated AI, 5G, computer vision
- **Autonomy Platform:** Snapdragon Ride - ADAS and autonomous driving platform; also used for AMR and drone autonomy
- **Leadership:** Dev Singh (VP Robotics, Drones and Intelligent Machines), Sahil Bhasin (Senior Director Robotics PM), Ziad Asghar (SVP Product)
- **Customers:** iRobot, LG, Sony (Aibo), Amazon (Astro), NXP partners, automotive OEMs via Snapdragon Ride
- **Patents:** 2 USPTO robotics patents (mobile platform, visual SLAM) under Qualcomm assignee; extensive wireless and AI patent portfolio
- **Cross-Category:** Qualcomm RB spans AMR, drone, consumer robot, automotive - multi-form-factor brain provider; RB3 specifically targets humanoid and industrial robots

- **Slug:** qualcomm
- **HQ:** San Diego, California, USA

## Models

- [Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2](/models/qualcomm-rb3-gen2.md) (compute) (id: `73302be6-b3fe-46f1-ba60-5f51be39d031`)

## Current leadership (5)

- [Ziad Asghar](/people/ziad-asghar.md) executive (SEC-verified)
- [Sahil Bhasin](/people/sahil-bhasin.md) executive (secondary-verified)
- [Cristiano Amon](/people/cristiano-amon.md) ceo (SEC-verified)
- [Dev Singh](/people/dev-singh.md) executive (secondary-verified)
- [Akash Palkhiwala](/people/akash-palkhiwala.md) executive (SEC-verified)

## Supplies to (1)


### Compute / semiconductor
- [Amazon Astro](/models/amazon-astro.md) (by Amazon) (Snapdragon SDA660 application processor + dual QCS605 IoT/vision SoC (+ PM660 family PMICs)) _supplies_

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. **Qualcomm** · https://www.qualcomm.com/

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