CLAIM #51480 · Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) · 2024Q3 earnings call · Jul 31, 2024 · due Dec 31, 2027
“we forecast about 50% of our computers sold in 2027 will be AI PCs.”
Cristiano Amon · CEO
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Look at: AI PCs as a percentage of total PCs sold (industry-wide, as referenced by Qualcomm management)
It came true if: AI PC share of PCs sold in 2027 >= 45% (approximately 50% as forecast)
Where: Management commentary on earnings calls (Qualcomm) or industry PC market research reports (e.g., IDC/Canalys) for calendar year 2027
In context
“applications yet. What do you -- what do you think is going to drive the deployment? What kind of applications and what's the timing of applications that will drive the deployment of AI in handsets? Cristiano Amon: Tal, this is Cristiano. Thank you for your question. Let me take the first one. You should think about addressable market the follow way. First of all, it's Windows 11, addressable market. We're very focused right now on laptops, whether it's commercial laptops for enterprise, consumer laptops. We're ranging price points, I think, especially as we talked in the prepared remarks, extending the road map from $700 and above. That's -- and what is defined as AI PC, a metric that I can provide to you. And I think there has been a number of OEMs indicating their respective views, but we forecast about 50% of our computers sold in 2027 will be AI PCs. That's one way to think about it. And we continue to basically see the transition of as upgrades are happening to Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, an opportunity for us to participate with a highly differentiated solution. I think your second question... Akash Palkhiwala: It was on AI applications. Cristiano Amon: It was about AI applications for devices. So here's how you should think about it. AI is going to do on phones, whether you're going to text, whether you're going to talk, whether you're going to touch, it's going to be a very important part of the human computer interface. And this is going to start to change a lot of the user experience on apps. It's less of a carrier conversation. It's really more of an application conversation. And those are going to start to change a lot of the”
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