At this year’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm President & CEO Cristiano Amon painted a bold vision for the future: “AI is the new UI.” Computing is shifting away from apps and icons toward agents and context. Snapdragon technology, he said, is designed to bring AI everywhere—from the cloud to the edge, across phones, PCs, cars, wearables, and beyond.
That vision matters, because the edge is where AI becomes personal. It’s where data originates, where context is captured, and where immediacy is critical. And it’s where physics shows up with a barrier every engineer knows too well: performance always brings heat.
For AI to truly live everywhere, innovation in cooling must live everywhere too. That’s where AirJet® comes in.
AirJet is the world’s first solid-state active cooling chip. Silent, thin, light, dustproof, vibration-free, and water-resistant, AirJet clears the barrier of heat at the edge—unlocking performance in laptops, handhelds, XR, and robotics where traditional fans cannot go.
Qualcomm’s Track Record of Foresight
Cristiano Amon emphasized that this year’s vision is not guesswork—it’s the continuation of a pattern. Qualcomm has a history of seeing what’s next before the industry does:
- Predicting the mobile internet and building the silicon to make it real.
- Foreseeing the convergence of smartphones and PCs, long before today’s AI laptops.
- Driving compute into cars, wearables, and XR, years ahead of the mainstream.
- As early as 2021, calling out the edge as essential for AI—a prediction now playing out at scale.
That track record matters. It shows that when Qualcomm outlines the next era—AI everywhere, with agents at the center—it’s more than speculation. It’s a roadmap already under construction.
Six Trends, One Challenge
Cristiano Amon outlined six key trends shaping the next phase of AI. Each opens possibilities—and each collides with the thermal challenge:
- AI is the New UI.
Devices won’t wait for commands; they’ll understand intent through voice, vision, and context. That requires always-on AI processing at the edge—only possible when devices stay cool and silent.
- Smartphone-Centric to Agent-Centric Computing.
The phone, PC, glasses, and earbuds all shift toward an AI agent at the center. Multiple devices running AI concurrently mean power density rises everywhere—and so does heat.
- New Agentic Applications.
Banking, scheduling, translation—apps evolve into proactive AI companions. Continuous inference loads mean sustained thermal management is no longer optional, it’s foundational.
- New Architecture & Silicon.
As Qualcomm redesigns processors and memory for AI workloads, cooling must evolve too. Legacy fans can’t scale down to thin, mobile, or wearable form factors. AirJet’s active solid-state design does.
- Hybrid Cloud + Edge AI.
The cloud will train and the edge will personalize, act, and respond in real time. Bursty, high-intensity AI tasks on-device are exactly where traditional cooling struggles—and where AirJet shines.
- Connectivity for the AI Era.
With 6G on the horizon, every edge device becomes part of a dynamic, adaptive network of intelligence. But connectivity means nothing if devices throttle under heat before they can deliver.
AirJet: Built for the Edge AI Era
Qualcomm’s vision makes it clear: the edge will define AI’s future. But the edge is defined by constraints—size, weight, noise, dust, durability. AirJet solves all of them:
- Thin & Light: Enables slimmer laptops, sleeker XR, untethered robotics.
- Silent: Perfect for personal and professional environments.
- Dustproof, Vibration-Free, Water-Resistant: Reliable even in the toughest real-world conditions
By removing the barrier of heat, AirJet transforms what edge devices can achieve. It allows the six trends Amon outlined to move from theory to practical reality.
What Comes Next
Qualcomm has been right before. From mobile internet, to the smartphone era, to AI at the edge, their foresight has reshaped industries. This year’s keynote extends that track record with clarity: AI everywhere is inevitable.
But inevitability doesn’t mean inevitable limit on performance. The barrier of heat is real.
AirJet is the breakthrough.
