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In this episode of the neXt Curve reThink podcast, Leonard Lee is joined by special guest, Prakash Sangam, Principal Analyst at Tantra Analyst, to recap Qualcomm's biggest event of the year, Snapdragon Tech Summit 2026, which took place in Maui, Hawaii.

Prakash and Leonard cover the following topics in their recap of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026:

👉 Overview of the Snapdragon Summit program, key themes & impressions. (2:12)
👉 The smartphone takes center stage with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6. (4:25)
👉 Personal AI theme expands with agentic AI. (7:15)
👉 Agentic trust in the coming era of agentic commerce. (10:39)
👉 A showcase in heterogeneous AI & agentic computing. (14:50)
👉 Memory architecture changes of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6. (19:54)
👉 Could agentic AI make the NPU matter? (21:28)
👉 Is there a gaming versus AI trade-off? (22:50)
👉 What happened to 5G and modem leadership? (23:50)
👉 HBC (High Bandwidth Compute) scales from data center to smartphone. (24:55)
👉 Qualcomm's personal agentic AI push with Liquid AI.(25:08)
👉 Smart glasses and AI companions. (31:12)
👉 Qualcomm scales healthcare for the Snapdragon wearable ecosystem. (32:10)
👉 Modular makes a case for Qualcomm's heterogeneous AI strategy. (34:26)
👉 Qualcomm introduces dev programs to catalyze smart glasses ecosystem. (37:42)
👉 Snapdragon X2 Plus powers latest Surface and Lenovo IdeaPad Vibe. (39:20)
👉 Is Googlebook Qualcomm's AI PC moment? (41:02)
👉 The operating system is the on-device agentic AI platform. (46:39)
👉 Manchester United Surface and back-of-shirt partnership with Microsoft. (51:22)

Check out Prakash Sangam and his research at Tantra Analyst at www.tantraanalyst.com. Also check out the Tantra's Mantra Podcast.

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