Qualcomm CEO Forecasts 40x Growth in Global Token Demand by 2030

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon stated that global token demand is projected to grow 40-fold over the next four years, rising from approximately 31.7 billion tokens every 10 seconds in 2026 to 1.27 trillion by 2030. Amon attributed this surge to the shift in AI from human-paced interactions to agent-paced activities, noting that every action involves underlying costs related to context management, memory updates, sensor interpretation, and error mitigation.